Hot to the Touch — Margrett Dawson

In Rome in the year 79 Claudia, a high born widow, is promised in marriage to yet another elderly man. She despairs of ever finding a young, virile husband and learning the pleasures of the bed that poets sing about. Until her brother returns in triumph, bringing with him a slave who sets her body aflame and her heart aglow.Karl can fulfill her every desire because she owns him-until she finds herself enslaved by passion.On her way to her marriage in Pompeii, the deadly flames of Vesuvius provide the perfect escape to new life and a new understanding.