Cover color fading Pages yellowing with age Light foxing inside covers Avon books, 1979 , 665 pages A novel ablaze with the flames of a magnificent passion that captures the clash of wills of two proud people: Alaina MacGaren, the impudent, plantation bred beauty whose reckless bravado could never be crushed-until she met the one man whose sheltering arms made her incapable of reason... and Cole Latimer, the tall, ramrod straight Yankee surgeon who rescues her, is deceived by her again and again, but who can never forget the night his soul was seared by a body clothed only in mystery.

ISBN: 0380463679