Passion's Blazing Triumph
Never in her wildest dreams had Isabella VanDerLind Jones dared to believe she would ever become a queen. Suddenly, here she was, a naive American girl now the supreme empress of an exotic Mediterranean island...an Eden that none could enter except at her command....

Until an audacious French adventurer topples her from her throne. Although she despises the rash revolutionist D'Arcy Calhoun, fate refuses to free her from him. Bound together by their desperate, mutual need to survive, Isabella soon finds her bitter hatred turning to burning love....