Fierce Eden (Faw) # - Tapa blanda

Dreading and detesting the touch of men after a brutal marriage, lovely widow Elise Laffont is forced by the Natchez uprising into the arms of half-French, half-Indian Reynaud Chevalier, who awakens her to passion and love with his patience and gentleness

wenty-five, beautiful Elise Laffont had been taught by her brutal husband to hate sex and men. She was quite content to manage her small Louisiana farm alone -- until a Natchez Indian uprising forced her to flee.
To secure safe passage for herself and her neighbors, Elise agreed to become the mistress of Reynaud Chavalier, son of a French nobleman and a Natchez princess.
But what began as sacrifice soon became pleasure, as his sensuous touch awakened her to the ecstasies of love . . .