title: Flame of Fury
author: Green, Sharon
description: Fleeing to the colonies with money stolen from the opportunists eager to marry into her family, Rianne Lockwood is kidnapped by Bryan Machlin, who wishes to use Rianne in a plan of vengeance against her stepfather.
  
  BRIDE OF FORTUNE  --  Men flock around Rianne Lockwood, eager to claim both her beautiful body and the fortune she will inherit when she weds. But her greedy stepfather schemes with would-be suitors to get his own share of her money. Rianne has no intenion of giving up her freedom for marriage, and plans to escape.... Then she meets her match in Bryan Machlin....
  
  MISTRESS OF DESIRE
  
  Driven by vengeance against Rianne's stepfather, Bryan drags his reluctant bride to the altar. Yet from the moment she stands before him in all her defiant glory, he knows he has found more than he bargained for. Her fiery passions awakened, she taunts and tantalized him, arousing him to desire beyond endurance and age to the point of madness. Yet she challenges him to discover in her rebellious heart the spirit that will break the shackles of a common enemy and unite them forever in the flaming fury of their love.