Paradise Lost

Tide of passion

Blair Doyle had set off in search of paradise--or at least a refuge from the real world, a place where she could pick up the pieces of a failed marriage and learn to feel again.

On a strip of beach she met Hugh Bannatyne, a man who had also known suffering. Hugh made it clear that he shared her determination to remain unattached. Yet beneath his outward composure burned a heat that called to something as intense in Blair.

By night, Hugh's desire summoned her, freeing them both from invisible chains. But come daybreak, the barricades surrounding Hugh's control were back. And the paradise that Blair had glimpsed was lost....