The Spanish Rose

the long version

No Greater Love. He was her family's bitterest enemy... and now he stood before her, his magnificent body in chains, captured by her brother -- enslaved. But from the moment ravishing Maria Delgato gazed into Gabriel Lancaster's burning emerald eyes there was no question who was the real prisoner... Gabriel despised this tempting Spanish flower whose flawless face rose to haunt him in every fevered dream. He would escape on a pirate ship bent on plunder -- and then one day return as conqueror to destroy all Maria's resistance in the smoldering fire of his embrace... From lush Caribbean estates to desperate battles at sea, all the way to the glittering English and Spanish courts, Maria and Gabriel would rage against the one truth their hearts could never deny... and which passion alone could set free...(less)