Aylesbury #3 SECRET PASSION With her long, spiraling black hair and indigo blue eyes, Jessica Aylesbury was the beauty of the settled territory in Australia's savage outback. No one guessed that she not an Aylesbury at all, but an adopted part-native. And that Eric, the worshipped friend of her childhood, was the one man who made her burn with desire at the very sight of him. She could never let him know how she felt--and she could never let anyone but him teach her the smouldering pleasures of womanhood... FORBIDDEN LOVE He'd been away too long, Eric Aylesbury thought as his eyes raked over Jessica's ripening curves. As an outlaw, forced to live in the untamed bush country and visit his family in secret, Eric knew he had no right to any decent woman, let alone the one he had grown up with. But as a man, he had to sample the sweet nectar of Jessica's beauty and make her his own beneath the blazing Australian sun. He'd take what she had to offer and leave her waiting for the next time they shared the shattering ecstasy of passion's WILD FURY