Mississippi Kiss — Barbara McIntosh

SHE IS A DEFIANT SOUTHERN BEAUTY...
After proving that she can run her family's sprawling Gulf Coast plantation, Brianna Calhoun is stunned to discover that her late father's will has named an Irish earl as her guardian. Consumed with hatred for the man fated to control her inheritance and her life, Brianna gallops away from Lagniappe. Stumbling upon an injured stranger on the beach, she makes him a scandalous proposal...

...UNTIL ONE MAN TEACHES HER TO LOVE
His name is Ryan Fleming, and he agrees to be her husband...in name only. But as voodoo drums beat along Mississippi's sultry shores, Brianna finds herself swept away on a breathless odyssey of sensual awakening and discovery. Then she learns Ryan's sinful secret. But it is too late. For the man who has so cruelly deceived her has also awakened irresistible love....