Having spent six years in Africa with her English missionary husband, she knows that the desert is not as empty of water as most suppose, if one knows where to look. Thus she leads her party on an epic two hundred mile walk to gain the fertile grassland to the south. To achieve this, she must drive them ever onwards, quell two mutinies and watch some of her party die. Their lives are saved when they reach an oasis, but to gain true safety they must now face Arab slaver traders, bloodthirsty Ashanti warriors, and the all-consuming forest. Victoria's walk has hardly begun. Set at the turn of the 20th Century, when the British Empire was approaching its zenith, with a handful of administrators and soldiers endeavoring to rule vast areas and dominate peoples they did not understand, VICTORIA'S WALK is a tale of the human spirit at its highest and lowest, its most courageous and its most bestial, of one woman's unceasing fortitude, of the men who loved her, and the women who hated her.

    Then when he first met the velvet gaze of his gorgeous rescuer Espri, he knew just how to start celebrating his survival. The sun-drenched cove was a perfect hideaway for fiery love; the lapping water a cool sheet, for impassioned bodies.1litchell realized he'd have to return one day soon to his lucrative shipping firm, but nothing could stop him from exulting in sensual pleasures until he finally set sail. FEVERISH NEED Though she'd been raised among the uninhibited natives, innocent Espri Duchant had sworn to guard her virtue until her wedding day. Then she discovered the handsome stranger lying on her beach... and the supple beauty vowed to kiss his chiseled lips and succumb to his powerful embrace. Her fantasies always ended in their marriage, so Espri was eager to learn the mysteries of ecstasy--from the moment he awoke. She'd tease him until he'd never turn to another and satisfy him until all he craved was her flawless heated flesh, her enticing ISLAND DESIRE