a marriage of unquenchable lust.

THEIRS was the love affair of the century - the 18th century. She, the spoilt daughter of a slaveowner, raised on a Caribbean plantation, who ate so much sugar that her teeth turned a grizzled black. He, the hollowcheeked military upstart with an astonishing capacity for rudeness trumped only by his unwavering arrogance. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]