FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK SHE WAS HIS FIERY TEMPTATION... Bound by the chains of slavery in an exotic land, Lucien de Gautier had only one chance of escape. In exchange for his freedom, he pledged to smuggle a virtuous young woman out of a harem and onto a ship bound for England. But Lucien didn't know that the real danger would lie not in the long voyage ahead but in his dazzling charge: a ravishing innocent whose flame-red hair and emerald eyes would unleash his most sensual desires... AND HIS INNOCENT CAPTIVE... No man, not even her betrothed, had dared look at Alessandra the way her bold new bodyguard did. And though his handsome face and virile strength filled her with yearnings she could not name, she vowed to put the reckless Englishman in his place. But Lucien was playing a part, biding his time until he could steal her away from the only life she'd ever known...Only after his deception was revealed would Alessandr discover what she'd suspected all the time: that she was the true captive, hostage to his pleasure, slave to a flaming passion she could never deny...