The Irish Devil — Diane Whiteside

He was her chance for survival...
Born to wealth and privilege but now widowed and betrayed on the unforgiving Arizona frontier, Viola Ross finds herself forced to choose between starvation and marriage to her husband's murderer. Instead she takes a scandalous risk: to turn her back on polite society and become the mistress of sensual William Donovan. With his reputation for ruthlessness when necessary and a piercing stare that can stop a man--or melt a woman--Donovan seems fully capable of defending her with his bullwhip and Bowie knives. She has no idea what else he can do with those big, callused hands--but she's going to find out...


She was a dream who could destroy him...
Donovan is stunned by Viola's offer since he's always seen her as a fairy princess far beyond the reach of any self-made Irish immigrant. Women like her might enjoy an affair with a man like him--and he's more than proven himself in that capacity--but they wouldn't suffer the scandal of becoming his wife. But how will Viola react when she discovers the darkness of his erotic hungers? And once he's sampled her shy beauty, can he bear to let her go?


Theirs was a passion on the edge...
As desire flares to life between Donovan and Viola, a killer watches, his lust for her turning to deadly vengeance. For his allies are the very men who once destroyed Donovan's family, and this time, they'll let no Irish Devil stand in their way...