Ecstasy's Dream — Noreen O'Neill

YOUNG AND INNOCENT
Keary Cavanaugh was only eighteen when she was kidnapped from her native Ireland and sent by sea to Philadelphia. Afraid and ashamed, her first glimpse of the New World was as a prisoner -- she was chained to the other captives, all destined to be auctioned at morning's light. Keary knew the price on her head would be high -- her long black hair and violet eyes would attract many a bidder. And after seeing the blatant hunger in the look of one particular stranger, she could only guess at the price her innocence would bring...

KEEN AND DETERMINED
Morgan Baines avoided the "flesh auctions" as best he could. But on that fateful morning when Keary was lead to the auction block, Morgan breathed a sigh of relief -- he would save her from a fate worse than death -- he would buy her for himself. The thought of some other man touching her velvet skin or kissing h ruby lips made him wild with the desire to have Keary as his alone. He would be the one to teach her the ways of love, drive her wild with the ecstasy of reckless passion and bind her to him forever with ECSTASY'S DREAM