title: Wild Nights
author: Peters, Natasha
description: Emma Louise Vaughan arrived in Cambodia in 1952 with a dream: to leave behind her frivolous life as a Nebraska beauty queen and prove herself as a foreign correspondent, covering the escalating French military presence in Southeast Asia.
  
  Alan Hazen was the first man she met. Hazen, who claimed to be a geologist for Chrome Petroleum, saved Emma from sniper fire, took her into the jungle, and helped her capture her first stories. In spite of himself, he also fell in love with her.
  
  Captain Robert Janvier of the French Foreign Legion was the man who captured Emma's heart. He introduced her to the pleasures of opium and the sensuality of her own young body. But the same smooth hands that set Emma's flesh on fire often struck that flesh in anger. And Emma, brave enough to march into a battlefield, smart enough to chase her wildest dreams, beautiful enough to have any man she wanted, was too obsessed with Janvier to let him go.