Sometimes, parlor games can lead to more than mere flirtation.
Jillian Kelley, a young woman on the brink of the new millennium, has just returned from university in the States. Her new knowledge of the world and its infinite possibilities facilitate a desire to disregard her motherβs old-fashioned Victorian parlor ideas of proper behavior.
As Jillian avidly pursues her girlhood crushβa traditional fellow countryman with wealth and propertyβa handsome American with whom sheβd shared a passionate night comes to call. The insufferable intrusion is annoying to say the least, however his irresistible, seductive ways draw her cravings to the surface like the rise of a tide.
Bradley Townsend accepted with pleasure the bequeathed gift of Miss Kelleyβs virtue the very night they met, but the adventurous blue-eyed beauty stole his heart, leaving him holding nothing but a note in the morning. Thereβs no way in Hell heβs going to let her slip through his fingersβeven if he has to hop on a ship, follow her home and seduce her all over again.