Silver Jasmine

They called her Silver Jasmine Slender as a reed, and as ready as a fawn to flee at a man's touch ...yet seventeen-year-old Tess had mettle too, though it could not prevent her cruel stepfather from gambling away her honor in a card game or Morgan Hamilton's forcing her into his marriage bed. Morgan Hamilton...soldier, sailor, Scotsman, enigma. How Tess longed to love him she who could not trust any man! Only on their sultry tropical isle, only at her new plantation home, a land seething with slavery and vengeance, could Tess grow to understand Morgan and the ways of her own heart.