title: Wild River Bride
author: Wimberly, Clara
description: PASSION AWAKENED
  
  Lily Gaines was as wild as the Mississippi, a flame-haired girl growing up amid the steamboat traffic that came and went from Natchez Under-the-Hill. Her gentle parents let her do as she pleased, but that was before Yellow Fever swept through the small river town and left young Lily an orphan, faced with a life in the workhouse. And before the arrogant, wealthy Nicholas St. James arrived to keep the promise he'd made to her parents -- to look after Lily by making her his wife...
  
  Mrs. Lily St. James had grown into a beautiful, cultured woman -- with a stubborn streak no amount of refinement could erase. Having completed her schooling, she returned to Natchez expecting to be everything her dark, handsome husband could want ... but instead found him in the arms of another woman. Now Lily must use all her sensual charms to convince Nicholas that she is not the same wild girl he'd wed four years ago. She is a passionate woman, the only one who can promise him everlasting love....