Fortune's Choice — Eleanor Howard

RAISED AS A LADY...GAMBLED AWAY AS A COMMON SLAVE!

Lovely young Felicia Brooke was left to fend for herself when her father gambled away his fortune -- then his own life. But when the cruel Viscount Rawsthorne tried to claim Felicia as part of his winnings, she fled his amorous bondage to the safety of Ceylon and marriage to a distant cousin.

Soon she met Lord David Griffin, and became governess to his young daughter -- and watchful admirer of his dark, magnetic charms. Until a fateful shipwreck left them stranded on the warm shores of a Greek island -- locked in the grip of a tender and sultry passion...

But on returning to David's sumptuous English estate, a terrible secret shatters their perfect romantic idyll -- a secret from David's past that sends Felicia, heartbroken to the haven of other men's arms...

Trying to forget, unwilling to forgive, still she keeps alive her dream. For deep within her lives the spark of their passion...the secret promise of...