THEIR PASSION WAS AS FREE AND SPLENDID AS THE TOWERING WILDERNESS OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST... Devastated on her wedding day by a shattering revelation, Melissa Corbin turned to a stranger with a brazen bargain: she would take his name in exchange for the power of the Corbin empire. Quinn Rafferty was shockingly handsome and used to command. His bold, generous heart was quickly roused to laughter, to anger... and to white-hot desire for the headstrong, sable-maned beauty. Quinn's caresses kindled blazing starlight in Melissa's pounding blood... and soon there was no turning back. But above their happiness loomed a bitter man's vengeance that could destroy all that Quinn most cherished. Now Melissa and Quinn would risk their very lives for the glorious heights of ecstasy...