Seek the Wild Shore — Leslie O'Grady

She felt herself blossom beneath Niles' coaxing mouth, glorying in the sensuous moment. And when his burning lips trailed down her neck, Maddie brazenly returned his caresses....

Beautiful and bold Maddie Dare broke all the rules for a Victorian woman. England gasped at her exploits as a journalist pursuing adventure around the globe. But when she sailed up the Amazon with explorer and guide Niles Marcus in search of her missing fiance, she discovered that for the first time she had left the power of her profession and her defiance of a woman's role behind. For on a savage jungle river, her pen offered no protection from, she perils at every turn. And in the arms of a man as handsome as he was strong, she discovered the ecstasy that only a woman who dared surrender to passion could know....