HE WAS A SHADOW FROM HER PAST. Jace Whitehall had given Amanda her first taste of passion. His silver eyes had held a forbidden fascination for her, but at sixteen she had been too inexperienced to understand the fiery message in his searing kisses, too young to let him initiate her into the rites of love. Now all that had changed. She was a grown woman, ready to learn the lessons of desire, and there was only one man who could teach her -- a man whose glittering gaze held both the secrets of her unhappy past and the promise of a golden future.