Passion's Gamble — Robin Lee Hatcher

IN THIS GAME OF CHANCE, SHE RISKED EVERYTHING FOR LOVE

At a tender age, young Alexis Ashmore was torn from her lush Virginia plantation home to live in the untamed new territory of Idaho, where her father sought his fortune.

It was there that her first passionate embrace with ruggedly handsome Colter Stephens told her that she would never be able to love another. Yet through an odd turn of events, Alexis became the wealthiest woman in the county, making her prey to a man whose lust for power drove him to make her his own. The impropriety of his charm and deceit made her desire Colter all the more. But the gamble she was forced to take to win him back might lose his love forever...