Lisbon
Beautiful young Charlotte Gayle hoped to be saved from a forced marriage by Tom Westing. In the strong arms and under the fiery kisses of this handsome seafaring adventurer. Charlotte had learned the power and passionate beauty of love. But elegant, iron-willed Rowen Keynes cast a different spell on her when he snared her into wedlock and fathered her two lovely daughters. Charlotte was wed to one man -- in love with another ... and torn between both -- in an exotic city vibrating with passion and danger, where everything was possible and nothing was safe...