Dancer of Dreams

In Colonial Virginia, Hannah Verner--once an indentured servant, now the widow of a wealthy planter--shocks society by personally supervising her beloved plantation, Malvern. Learning that her husband, who was killed in a mysterious accident, has left the place heavily mortgaged to arrogant Courteney Wayne, she determines to free herself from his debt. But she can not free herself from her own attraction to Courteney, for he has ignited the warm passion she has suppressed for too long. Their joyously abandoned affair leaves her vulnerable--and she is shattered when she learns that Courteney might have engineered her husbands death as part of his scheme to possess Malvern.