She was heiress to the splendor and the shame of Les ChandellesLes Chandelles -- a fabulous Louisiana plantation ruled as a private kingdom by generations of men who used their slaves to reap the riches of the land and satisfy every hunger of the flesh.Now the Civil War isolated Les Chandelles more than ever -- and gave the beautiful Emilie Bonfils, who was last in line, more power than any young woman had ever before possessed, and left her burning with more suppressesd passion than she could long contain.Les Chandelles had known savage violence and lust before -- but nothing compared to the inferno about to erupt as the highborn Emilie, defying every rule of breeding and propriety, cast her eyes in forbidden directions only to find that she had become the slave -- not the mistress -- of her own ravenous needs....