A fabulous lost Amazon city containing a rare red diamond. It sounded like a myth, but archaeologist Jillian Sherwood was willing to put up with anything to look for it--even Ben Lewis, ruffian, knock-about, and number-one river guide in Brazil. Another sensuous and spellbinding romance from "an incredibly talented writer" (Affaire de Coeur).

A fabulous lost Amazon city once inhabited by women warriors and containing a rare red diamond: it sounded like myth, but archeologist Jillian Sherwood believed it was real, and she was willing to put up with anything to find it -- even Ben Lewis. Ruffian, knock-about, and number one river guide in Brazil, Ben was all man -- over six feet of rock-hard muscles that rippled under his khakis, with lazy blue eyes that taunted her from his tanned face. Jillian watched him come to a fast boil when she refused to reveal their exact destination upriver in the uncharted rain forests -- and resolved to stand her ground. Neither of them could foresee what the days ahead promised: an odyssey into the fiery heart of passion and betrayal, and a danger that would force them to cast their fates together, immersed in the eternal, unsolved mysteries of love....

Linda Howard, 1950 Lind Howard was born in 1950, and her real name is Linda Howington. She began writing at the age of ten while attending a small country school. She went on to a small community college, as the only journalism major, but soon dropped out to work at a trucking company as a secretary. Howard sold her first book in 1980, to Silhouette Books, whom she still writes for. She is a New York Times Best Selling Author and has over 10 million copies of her books in circulation. She has written over 25 titles and has written in every genre except horror. Howard has won the Silver Pen for "Affaire de Coeur" as well as the Romantic Time's Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Sensual Romance, the Romantic Times Magazine Reviewer's Choice Award for Series, and the W.I.S.H. Award for her character Joe Mackenzie. She has also won the Romance Writers of America's RITA, the B. Dalton Bestseller Award and is a Golden Choice finalist.