Tawny-gold and sensual, Adriana the gypsy girl set men aflame with her provocative campfire dance. Even Tom Paxton, dashing master of a South Carolina plantation and devoted husband to an English heiress, could not help but be stirred by their first meeting one wild night in the forest. - But despite Adriana's vision of a mysterious bond between them, they were swept apart by the racing currents of their lives. Until in a smoky New Orleans tavern they sealed a pact of vengeance against the same arrogant foe. Together, they sailed the blue Caribbean, united in hatred, divided by the memory of Paxton's lost bride -- borne recklessly along on the beating waves of their own boundless passion for each other...
