This Tender Prize

the long version

THROUGH THE SAVAGE TURMOIL OF HER LIFE... Plucked as an innocent blossom from the court of the French king, Juliette le Roy struggled against abduction by her father's avowed enemy. Escape was hers, but not before her innocence became the prize booty of the cruel and ruthless Captain Youngblood. Soon she married a cold English lord and became mistress of a vast shipping fortune -- and soon again, there to taunt her, was Christian Youngblood. Stolen by pirates to the deserts of Anatolia and the teeming slave markets of Istanbul, she was a pampered concubine with eunuch slaves -- and again appeared the face of Youngblood. ONE MAN APPEARED AND REAPPEARED! Returned to her husband, she assumed the proper life of an English lady. Then came a fateful duel and, with her fortune in the balance, yet again came Youngblood. Once more she was swept by fate across the ocean to the Caribbean, engulfed by the raging revolutionary war. And still the secret spark in her heart smoldered, yearning to burn freely, to reach out to its own undeniable destiny. For always and forever -- and again and yet again. She sought to offer the dashing Youngblood this gift of her desire...