title: Scorched Desire
author: Quean, Beverley
description: The second book in a series examining the grappling with love and desire among Southern women. The trajectory of discovery is sometimes painful, physically and emotionally. A caring lover can ease the transition, but caring lovers can be in short supply. Faced with desire, one must embrace it or run from it. If one chooses to face the spectre, the means of expression becomes key if one is to maintain a sense of self. In the SOUTHERN DESIRE series, each lead character is named "Desire" through force o circumstances, not choice. Each faces a different initiation and set of challenges on the road to personhood. Though the road takes each through differing life circumstances, the goal of self-realization remains the same. How each deals with the vicissitudes of existence is the substance of the story. In the first book in the series, BOUND BY DESIRE, a romantic initiation becomes a brutal forcing. Her consequent search for the completion of that longed-for "first time," took Desire through school and work where the kind of lover who can offer the completion she longs for is in short supply. The second volume follows another girl named Desire through seduction to fulfilment to loss. In the wreckage, she must make a choice.