Passion's Prisoner

A French general's daughter, lovely Antoinette Dubec had come to war-torn Mexico to be with her father and enjoy the court favors of Maximilian and Carlota. But when she arrived, she learned that her father was dead, a victim of the mysterious rebel leader El Padrino. Vowing to avenge his death, Antoinette accepted the assistance of brooding, handsome Ramon Chavez, an aristocratic Mexican officer whose ruthlessness and passion both frightened and attracted her. But it wasn't until she reached Chavez's estate, Val Verde, that she realized the depth of her own fears or the burning rage of her desires. For suddenly she had become the willing captive of a man she hated because of a love she could not deny....

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.