FROM THE SULTRY SPLENDOR OF TEXAS TO THE GLITTERING CAPITALS OF EUROPE, THEY WERE CAUGHT IN AN UNQUENCHABLE DESIRE! Pandora Sherwood's wild ways and uncompromising independence were the scandal of Galveston society. As tempestuous as the storm that orphaned her, the flame-haired beauty was drawn to a dark-eyed adventurer, Ward Gabriel-a self-made man who vowed he would possess her. But the dreams that haunted Pandora's senses left her a mystery to Ward. Compelled to understand the secrets of her restless soul, she fled to Europe, there to pour her fierce will into the painting that made her the darling of a continent. But fame could not still her aching need for Ward, whose powerful love as as urgent as the hunger that fused them in its heat-as the secret that tore her from his embrace. Only by returning to Galveston to unveil the mystery of of her dreams to Ward could Pandora rehoice in a love as precious as time itself.