This Is the House — Deborah Hill

LOVE'S WILD FIRES

Very carefully, beautiful Molly Deems leaned all the ways in which her irresistible charms could use a man's aroused appetite to feed her hunger for wealth and position. When Elijah Merrick offered Molly his name and his growing fortune in return for the sensual pleasure she brought him -- the passionate response she pretended, the lie she lived as his wife -- her rise in the world was assured.

But Molly Deems was also a woman --a woman with blood that ran too warm and a pulse that beat too fast for the one wanton, devastatingly attractive man who tantalized her burning desire, and intoxicated her with the most dangerous dream of all -- a dream of wild, fiery, rapturous love....