A Rogue in Texas

by Lorraine Heath, Avon, April 1999, ISBN #0380803291, $6.50 U.S / $8.50 Can. Inside cover author photo by Work of Art Studio Portraits

A duke's son, Grayson Rhodes was a maverick who had left London's suffocating upper class world to earn his own fortune. So he seized the chance to work Abbie Westland's land . . . and from the moment he first saw Abbie, he was determined to use his arms to work the farm by day and to soothe her through the nights in his strong embrace.

Abbie, with her fiery determination, was different from the fragile beauties he'd known at home. In her Grayson found an honest passion he'd never experienced before. But could their growing love survive the surprising reminder of her past that comes to haunt them?

Excerpt

With the slightest touch

   A woman with the hair the shade of a full moon and eyes the color of violets captured his gaze. She stepped toward him. "Let me see your hands."
   "I beg your pardon?"
   She grabbed his wrist, turned up his hand, and placed her palm against his. He was unprepared for the jolt of warmth her touch sent through him. There was nothing in her caress to entice a man, and yet, he experienced a keen sense of loss when she released her hold on him. He closed his hand as though by doing so, he could recapture her touch.