Used book – The Red Rose - Prelud', Diana Palmer

- Don't fight me, Cecily... Fight? Cecily Peterson had neither the strength nor the desire. For she was finally where she had always wanted to be: in the arms of Tate Winthrop, the hero of her adolescence. From the day he protected her from an alcoholic and violent stepfather, she had fallen madly in love with this dark and brooding man. A hopeless love, she knew: Tate, fiercely attached to his Indian roots, would never commit to a woman of a different origin than his own... And if he had offered her a red rose, a delicate paper rose brought back from Japan, it was as a token of tenderness, not love. But for Cecily, this rose embodied a passion that nothing, not even the six years spent away from him, had been able to extinguish. A passion that was rekindled by the fire of desire she now saw, for the first time, burning in his eyes. And this discovery excited and frightened her at the same time: for if she submitted to him, comm