title: River Jewel
author: Cockcroft, Ann
description: HIS STOLEN CARESSES AROUSED HER FURY -- AND IGNITED A BURNING PASSION SHE COULD NOT DENY
  
  Dazzling Jewel Lockridge was the belle of the Hudson Valley, and betrothed to a charming lawyer. Then financial ruin struck her family -- and among the wolves came the McAllisters, hungry to take the Lockridge estate and to settle an old score.
  
  Tall, bronzed Skye McAllister wanted the most precious treasure among the spoils -- Jewel herself. The proud young beauty was ready to fight her hated suitor to the end, but the more she schemed against him, the more she desired this arrogant man whose tender, knowing touch had captured her very soul!