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The Price of Pleasure

Kresley Cole returns with a breathtaking romantic saga of love, honor, and passion unbound--as a man of duty faces his greatest trial, and a young castaway discovers her greatest desire....

A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word--as a gentleman--to find and protect her. But one look at a grown Victoria and Grant has never felt less like one.

Tori relishes freedom, untamed passion, and spontaneity above stifling order. Even more so when a proud, cold British captain arrives to rescue her, though she has no wish to be. As Grant tries to convince her to leave her island home, she begins to see in him a man hungering for more. A man who once laughed. A man who desires her but won't take what she offers.

As Grant struggles to control his own savage passions--and fails, Tori must decide what she wants more--her unfettered independence or the only man who could tame her wild heart....

Previously a competitive athlete and coach, Kresley Cole now concentrates on her dream of writing romance. She has a master's degree in English from the University of Florida, and spent two years in the research library there, gathering background material for her books. Her award-winning novels include If You Dare, The Price of Pleasure, and The Captain of All Pleasures, all available from Pocket Books. She is also the author of the Immortals After Dark paranormal romances from Pocket Star Books: No Rest for the Wicked and A Hunger Like No Other, which was chosen by the Rhapsody/Doubleday Book Club, and was featured on the cover of Romantic Times Magazine. Her short fiction is featured in the #1 bestselling anthology Playing Easy to Get. She lives with her husband, Richard, on a bayou in the Florida panhandle. Visit her website at www.kresleycole.com.