title: The Burning Plains
author: Palmer, Catherine
description: FIRES OF DESIRE
  
  Adam King stormed across the ballroom, and as he came near, Emmaline Pickworth's pulse hammered like thunder. Within moments, the dark-haired American rancher had swept her around the room to a popular waltz. In the warmth of his embrace, Emma's reserve melted, turning her pliant and yielding. And when she leaned against his chest and inhaled the scent of the plains, she was no longer a naive innocent in search of a dream, but a young woman hungering for passion.
  
  Now, nothing could keep Emma from Adam. Under the blazing equatorial sun, along the scorched savannahs of an untamed land, by camp tents moist with jungle heat, and in the moonlit wilds of the African bush, she would come to him. Senses reeling, she would cast aside all doubts and suspicions. She would defy family, friends, queen and country to surrender to the ecstasy that would make her a woman... and consummate a love that could not be denied.