The second novel in Catherine Coulter's Bride trilogy by a novelist who has beenwidely tipped as the successor to Danielle Steel and who has already sold over 15 million copies of her novels. Sexual Tension combined with history is her hallmark. Ryder Sherbrooke is a funloving rake with a secret. When he travels to Jamaica to solve mysterious goings-on at the Sherbrooke sugar plantation, he discovers another mystery in Sophia Stanton-Greville, a nineteen-year-old girl who sets out to seduce him. Sophia has successfully controlled every man in her orbit until she meets Ryder. It is said that she already has three lovers. Is she a seductress or an innocent with a terrifying secret??