Title: Crystal Passion
Description: RAPTURE'S BRILLIANCE
When Ashley awoke from her drugged sleep, she found herself in the bedchamber of a dark-haired, steel-eyed stranger. Before she could escape, his powerful hands had pinned her to the bed--before she could scream, his lips had captured hers. Before she could explain that her guardian had tricked them both with a vile and ruthless scheme, the rapture of his searing, searching caresses drove all thought from her mind. All she could feel was hunger for his touch, thirst for his kiss, and yearning for ecstasy's endless pleasures...

LOVE'S SPLENDOR
Captain Salem McClellan was amused to discover that the Duke of Linfield's hospitality included a lithe young beauty to warm his bed. Tangling his fingers in her ebony hair, exploring the creamy satin of her flesh with burning lips, he felt the fire of Ashley's response beneath him. Too late, he realized her innocence and knew he could never leave her to the Duke's mercy. For he was enchanted by her fierce pride, ensnared by her rare beauty, and enthralled by the night of shimmering CRYSTAL PASSION

494 pages

McClellan Family Series:
Bk 1: Crystal Passion            - 1985     (Salem McClellan & Ashley Linne) 
Bk 2: Seaswept Abandon      - 1986     (Rae McClellan & Jericho Smith)
Bk 3: Tempting Torment      - 1989     (Noah McClellan & Jessa Winter)
Bk 4: Tidewater Promise (short story in the anthology Christmas Rendezvous)        - 1991 (Courtney McClellan)
Subjects: Historical Romance, Guardian, Pregnancy, Fever-Dream Rape, Romance Novel, Ward, Extended Family, Fiction, romance, general, Fiction, historical, general
Places: London, England, Virginia, New York, America
People: Martha Washington
Time periods: 18th Century, American Revolution, 1775-1776, Colonial America