The burning woman

the long version

HE CAME TO HER FROM THE SEA... A stranger, as beautiful and nameless as if he had washed ashore from one of her dreams. The lover she had longed for. Yet he was real. As she nursed him back to health and his memory returned, she was shocked to learn who he was and why he had been banished from his homeland. He warned her not to love him. He begged her not to destroy herself in the consuming fire of their passion... But for Catherine, from that first moment she had looked into his eyes, there was never any choice...