Ann, the Gentle — Katheryn Kimbrough

Beautiful young Ann Ornby had been marked from birth to be a Phenwick woman - but now unexpected desire had risen like a wall of flame across the path of her destiny.

Out of the unknown and into Ann's life and heart had come a man as handsome as he was mysterious...a man of overwhelming strength yet agonizing inner torment...a man who had the power to make Ann a puppet of irresistible passion even as he filled her with nameless dread. What was this man's true name? What hideous secret of the past shadowed every present moment of stolen love he offered? What strange future awaited a woman who dared trust her fate to promises that might be false and and carresses that dizzied her senses and destroyed her defenses? Ann was the most gentle of all the Phenwick women. Was she now doomed to be the most violently possessed and eternally damned?