title: The Secret Pearl
author: Balogh, Mary
description: PASSION FLOWER
  
  Fleur. That was her middle name. The name she told the man to whom she sold herself out of desperate want. But her full name was Isabella Fleur Bradshaw, gently born and brutally expelled from her sheltered life.  His name was Adam Kent, Duke of Ridgeway, the wealthiest lord in England, but scarred in war, bitterly betrayed in marriage.
  
  She feared his overpowering physical passion.  He fought to keep from loving her. They each had so much to teach each other and so much to learn... in a drama of desire played out on a vast estate - where a man and a woman come closer and closer to their moment of heart-pounding truth...
  
  Hero: Adam Kent, Duke of Ridgeway
  Heroine: Isabella Fleur Bradshaw