She learned the power of passion in love's fiery embrace. When strong and handsome Heath Rayne pulled lovely young Lucinda Caldwell from a winter river, he rescued her from an icy death. But soon he was plunging her into a torrid torrent of passion that this New England beauty had never suspected could claim her. Heath was unlike any other man Lucy had ever known -- a dashing, mocking, sensuous man who came as a stranger to Lucy's Massachusett's town... and stayed as he stripped away Lucy's last shreds of resistance to the demands of desire and the flaming fulfillment of love....