The Irish Devil

Description for THE IRISH DEVIL by Diane Whiteside: He was her chance for survival... Born to wealth and privilege but now widowed and betrayed on the unforgiving Arizona frontier, Viola Ross finds herself forced to choose between starvation and marriage to her husband's murderer. Instead she takes a scandalous risk: to turn her back on polite society and become the mistress of sensual William Donovan. With his reputation for ruthlessness when necessary and a piercing stare that can stop a man--or melt a woman--Donovan seems fully capable of defending her with his bullwhip and Bowie knives. She has no idea what else he can do with those big, callused hands--but she's going to find out... She was a dream who could destroy him... Donovan is stunned by Viola's offer since he's always seen her as a fairy princess far beyond the reach of any self-made Irish immigrant. Women like her might enjoy an affair with a man like him--and he's more than proven himself in that capacity--bu