If these two-hundred-year-old walls could talk, they'd tell of the Cain Blackmon presiding over his vast empire from the confines of an antebellum mansion, in a prison of his own making ... And of Phoebe Delongpree, who demanded sanctuary, destroying Cain's peace and pushing the limits of his self-control-the same woman who enslaved the recluse with a single kiss years ago ...