num_pages: 389
description: "I've a feeling you'll soon rue this day..."These were the fateful words Sarah Markham's father uttered after she threw herself between the convict lashed to the ship's mast and the captain's whip.Transported to Australia for crimes against the Crown, Dominic Gallagher had been labeled a troublemaker. No humor lightened his handsome face; everything about him looked dark, deliberate, and dangerous. But independent, feisty Sarah couldn't bear to see any man flogged to death. Instead she insisted her father buy this young Irish rebel and bring him back to their ranch.Soon a forbidden passion began to blossom between the indentured man and his mistress in this lush, primitive land. A twist of fate swept them together amid betrayal and intrigue as a man faced risking everything for freedom and a woman faced risking everything for love.
language: English
title: Dark Torment
titlecomplete: Dark Torment
genres: Fiction, Historical, Romantic Suspense, Australia, Romance, Adult, Regency, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Contemporary Romance
ratings_count: 1080
publisher: Warner Vision