Temptress
by Lisa Jackson

The Redeemer lights a deadly fire and all who are heirs of Wybren Castle are destroyed . . . yet one man escapes and ruins the killer's macabre plans. This man cannot go unpunished. In a nearby keep Morwenna of Calon is awakened in the middle of the night to be told that a battered soldier, his face so bruised and bloodied his identity is still unknown, has been found outside the castle walls. She senses danger, and the curse that the old sorceress has whispered for years now appears true. As Morwenna gazes at the half-dead man, she feels a chill—a premonition—and knows that this soldier comes with danger.

But worse yet the wounded man is rumored to be Carrick of Wybren, the bastard who stole her heart, then betrayed her. He's a wanted man, accused of setting the fire at Wybren, an inferno that killed all the members of his family. A murderer and a rogue, he deserves whatever the fates have in store for him...yet there is something about him she can't resist. Though she swears to hate him, Morwenna becomes ensnared in her own deadly fascination.

Is the wounded man a sinner or a saint? A heinous killer, or an innocent victim? Carrick of Wybren, her lover, the man who so callously deceived her, or is he someone else . . . Someone much more deadly?

Other Books by Lisa Jackson

Liar, Liar

You Will Pay

Lost Souls

Cold Blooded

Hot Blooded

Lisa Jackson's Bio

Lisa Jackson is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of more than 85 novels, including Afraid to Die, Tell Me, You Don’t Want to Know, Running Scared, Without Mercy, Malice, and Shiver. She is also the co-author of the Colony Series, co-written with her sister, Nancy Bush. There are over 20 million copies of Lisa Jackson’s books in print in twenty languages. Before she became a nationally bestselling author, Lisa Jackson was a mother struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, the USA Today, and the Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists. With over thirty bestsellers to her name, Lisa Jackson is a master of taking readers to the edge of sanity – and back – in novels that buzz with dangerous secrets and deadly passions. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional and downright twisted.  As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims, and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.