Private Treaty

Swept away . . . The storm that lashed the trees was nothing to the storm that swept through Carolina Hammond on the day Jacob Black Hawk first drew her into his embrace. The desires he awakened in her were dangerous, and made more so because they came from worlds society said could never meet. Jacob told himself to heed the danger, to stop his dreaming of a woman he could never have. But Carolina had already given him her heart, with a love far stronger than the rules of Man. So how could he stay away, when what she wanted was everything he wanted, too?