Essence of My Desire — Jill Jones

A Mysterious Elixir...

Simone Lefevre has two burning ambitions: to become one of the world's leading perfumers -- and to exact vengeance on the man who destroyed her father, her heritage...and her heart. Her key to both is a fragrance, a potent, alluring, powerfully erotic scent; a mysterious elixir from the 19th century that produces heady, sensual dreams powerful enough to sweep Simone into a place of forbidden pleasure in the arms of her greatest love...and her most bitter enemy.

That Turns Enemies into Lovers...

Nick Rutledge, too, has a desperate dream -- to restore his crumbled family empire to its rightful place among the great perfume houses -- an obsession for which he was once willing to lie, to steal, and to betray the only woman he could ever love. He sees his precious Simone only in the sensual netherworid produced by the mysterious essence of a perfume called "My Desire" -- a potion that dates back 150 years to his ancestors, to witchcraft and to star-crossed love. But now past and present are about to meet in a place of erotic enchantment and unmeasured danger, as two lovers trespass into the unknown regions of ecstasy...