12 oz.; 510 pages; PB 1st Printing top corner of cover gone/aged solid reading copy. He changed her quiet garden paradise into a blazing jungle of desire. Penniless and alone, young Dionne Martin was resigned to a single life as a housekeeper to Martinique's aristocracy. But one day as she strolled her mistress's garden, a towering muscular stranger grasped her in his embrace, kissed her in a most shocking way-and forever destroyed her fantasies of a happy life as spinsterhood.