Cassie's Rose — Elizabeth Doyle

A CRIME OF PASSION...
Accused of a crime she didn't commit, Cassandra has come to Australia's balmy shores as a convict, no longer fit to become any man's bride. Her only comfort is serving out her sentence as a housekeeper to a kind and handsome doctor who treats her as an equal. Night after night, his tender attentions awaken in her a deep, abiding passion, though she knows she could never belong to such a respectable man...no matter how much his eyes seem to say otherwise...

...IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
Malcolm has met many a hardened convict before, and the gentle, wise beauty in his house is anything but a criminal. No one seems to understand the mysteries of his heart so well, or fuel his desires to such a fever pitch. Everything about Cassie stirs a devoted protectiveness in Malcolm that makes him want to prove her innocence to all the wagging tongues in town. For if the lady is true and someone else is guilty of her heinous crime, she may be in more danger than she knows...and more in need of his love than she can imagine...