His warm, moist kisses, tasting of brandy, sent shivers through her body and drove away all thought...Eighteen-year-old Tereza Machado had only the marvel of her beauty and the magic of her singing voice to escape a world of want where love was for sale to the highest bidder. But despite her vow to find a future of safety and security, ever if it meant becoming a rich man"s plaything, she could not resist handsome, reckless adventurer Roberto Langdon. And on a path of daring and desire that led from a lush Brazilian plantation to danger-filled diamond fields deep in the wilderness...and from the seductions of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro to the splendor of Victorian London...she learned the power of passion, and the fiery fulfillment of love, in his arms...