"Witch! Seductress! Temptress! " The words struck out in anger. They were not words he had first used. Two strangers aboard a ship cruising at sea, their words, their kisses, their touch, had been filled with a fierce, tender passion. And Ronnie von Hurst had abandoned herself, so briefly, to a love she knew could never be. What was there to warn her that Drake O'Hara would appear at her isolated South Carolina island estate? That she would have to receive him as an honored guest? That she would be powerless to explain, torn between the man who was her husband in name only and the man she desired beyond anything in the world - the man who despised her as faithless wife and loved her with a passion she alone could equal?