Tonight and Forever — Caryl Wilson

IN ONE MAGICAL NIGHT THEY UNVEILED THE PASSIONS--AND THE PERILS--OF THE HEART'S ULTIMATE SURRENDER...

Believing that a deceitful lover's broken promise brought an innocent young lady to take her own life, pure vengeance drove her sister, beautiful English ballerina Courtney Asquith, to a relentless search for the arrogant heartbreaker responsible. The dancer's delicate grace and petite build belied the determined fury of her quest, which would not end until the American scoundrel she sought had paid dearly. Fleeing England for Charleston, she narrowly escaped the crude advances of a stablehand when a stranger intervened and carried her aboard his ship--where she fell into the inescapable embrace of the most seductive man she had ever met ....

Traveling the seas by night, Courtney deduced that Captain Sean Caddell was a smuggler. But the night held other dangers: hungry kisses and taunting caresses that lured her into the captain's own game of deception and desire. For even as Courtney was falling under his irresistible spell, she could not know the dark truth: Sean Caddell was the very man she sought, the man to whom she was bound by her own uncertain destiny ....