Slender as a reed, and as ready as fawn to flee a man's touch... yet 17 yr old Tess had mettle too, though it could not prevent her cruel step-father from gambling her honor in a card game...or

Silver Jasmine

Slender as a reed, and as ready as fawn to flee a man's touch... yet 17 yr old Tess had mettle too, though it could not prevent her cruel step-father from gambling her honor in a card game...or Morgan Hamilton's forcing her into his marriage bed. Morgan Hamilton...soldier, Scotsman, enigma. How Tess longed to love him... she who could not trust any man! Only on their tropical isle, only at her new plantation home, a land seething with slavery and vengeance, could tess grow to understand Morgan... and the ways of her own heart.

Silver Jasmine