A ROSE IN THE DESERT After twenty-five years of searching for her own brand of happiness, Perris Fleming was settling down to the life her parents had chosen for her: a corporate fiance, country club dances, well-to-do friends, and lazy summers in Lake Havasu, Arizona. That was the way Robert Chase found her--basking in hot, golden sands, trying to mask the discontent that haunted her. He was a stranger, an enigma to Perris. Yet his touch made her tremble with a passion as ancient as the shifting desert sands. If only the world would let her love him...