River Rapture

the long version

POOL OF DESIRE Every night, ebon-haired Ashlee Redington donned a different disguise, drugged another rich Yankee, and bilked him of his cash. But the night she played a worldly seductress, the southern beauty saw dashing Rhys Sinclair--and suddenly she wished she weren't pretending! She longed to know what intimacies would excite him, what to murmur in his ear. The accomplished trickster forced herself to remember he was a lowdown carpetbagger, but just a glance at his magnificent physique made her weak in the knees. Now instead of parting him from his money, all she could think of was how he'd strip away her gown--and then her inhibitions! LAKE OF PASSION When it came to women, arrogant Rhys Sinclair prided him-self on his self-control. Then he saw the curvaceous temptress aboard his riverboat, and he vowed not to rest until he had her in his bed! He planned to trail hot kisses along her flawless limbs, to arouse her senses until she wept for release. But Rhys downed his laudanum-laced drink --and realized too late he was just another of Ashlee's victims. Furious he'd been fooled, he promised revenge on his Mississippi mistress, and swore the day would come when he'd force her to share the unequaled ecstasy and exquisite RIVER RAPTURE