Passion's Slave

the long version

FROM THE DECADENCE OF LONDON... Flashing-eyed Julie Duval, a highborn English belle, swept into the seething London underworld... Rakish Antoine Riviere, exiled cavalier, plied the King's highways for a lawless, glittering fortune. His first bold gaze set a tumult in Julie's blood and fixed her reckless destiny - to love an outlaw condemned. ...TO A BRAZEN NEW WORLD Torn from her fugitive passion... bound in unjust chains... cast upon the pirate-haunted seas... she rode the stormtide of men's desires, to the sprawling shores of America. And there, driven by love's golden promise, she crossed the most glorious frontier, as young, as wild as her heart...