For seven long years, Deborah Stanton had lived in the painful shadow of passion lost. Duty had compelled her to turn away the man she loved, and now she still lived as a captive of the past, an unwilling prisoner of an undying hope.

Now Morgan Randall had returned to claim his family's proud title, and his cold gray eyes seemed determined to torment her with the memory of desire's dream. And Deborah Stanton found herself caught up in a dizzying dance of raging love and icy will, struggling against the flame that consumed her...