Nighthawk's Embrace — Gloria Pedersen

Nicholas Harrowe had taken Elissa aboard his ship as a prisoner of war, then captured her heart with a single burning kiss. He had claimed her hand in a hasty midnight ceremony, then dueled the man who doubted her virtue at dawn. He had made her a woman in a night of heady rapture, then made her a widow amidst the burning destruction of war. Yet how could he be gone, when the night still brought his husky murmurs of passion, the naked heat of his powerful body, and an ecstasy that was too exquisite to be dreamed?