title: Ashes and Ecstasy
author: Hart, Catherine
description: WOULD THE FLAMES OF PASSION THAT MADE THEM ONE BE QUENCHED BY WAR, SEPARATION AND BETRAYAL?
  
  Ecstatically happy in her marriage to handsome gentleman pirate Reed Taylor, Kathleen was never far from her beloved husband's side -- until their idyllic existence was shattered by the onset of the War of 1812. Her worst fears were realized when she received word that Reed's ship, the Kat-Ann, had been sunk, and all aboard had perished. Refusing to believe that Reed was dead, Kathleen mounted a desperate search with the aid of Jean Lafitte's pirate band, to no avail. The memory of the burning passion they had shared was ever present in her aching heart -- and then suddenly an ironic twist of fate answered her fervent prayers, only to confront her with evidence of a betrayal that would threaten everything she held most dear...