Floodtide

the long version

Could Dale Ryland show him how to love again? As a brilliant sculptor, Jos Blakeman breathed life into slabs of marble, stone and bronze. As a man, he inspired fiery passion in journalist Dale Ryland--something her fiance had never done. Jos had sculpted Dale's so-called perfect body, and then married her in order to possess it exclusively. But would he ever love the flesh-and-blood woman the way he now worshipped the bronze image? Dale feared not. To Jos, the statue was the more trustworthy of the two....