title: Loving Challenge
author: King, Carol
description: Their wills clashed -- Carefree, impulsive Laurette Harker was having the time of her life at her eighteenth birthday ball until she met the notorious Captain Dominic Warbrooke. The handsome scoundrel's arrogant bearing, bold gaze, and even the very slant of his smile rankled the spirited beauty. Unable to tolerate his intrusion silently, the ac...  more »complished beauty dared him to duel, sure she'd swiftly trounce him. But when the captain confidently named her innocence as his stakes, Laurette was terrified she'd lose not only the fight, but her heart as well!
  
  Their lips met -- Piercing pirates, trapping traitors and bedding wenches were a way of life for lusty Dominic Warbrooke. So when the provocative mite baited him at her ball, the towering rakehell was only too happy to oblige. He plotted the strategy of their swordplay as shrewdly as he planned her inevitable seduction, first he'd fool the raven-haired wench into thinking she had the upper hand then swiftly and relentlessly he'd bend her to his will, and have her surrender completely to his masterful LOVING CHALLENGE.