Bound by Desire

Bound by Desire is a historical romance by the American writer Rosemary Rogers, published in 1988 and part of her Brandon-Morgan series.

Laura Morgan is the daughter of Steve Morgan and Ginny Brandon, whose marriage the earlier books followed, and she has grown up in the world of wealth and attention that her parents made for themselves. Her story is tied to Trent Challenger, a man she is bound to by something that happened before the novel begins, and much of the book is the working-out of a relationship in which neither of them is willing to be the one who gives way first. Rogers wrote long historical romances with a taste for the unsettled parts of American life, and this novel belongs to a family saga in which the generations keep producing the same kinds of trouble. The book was published at the height of the era's appetite for romances with tempestuous heroes.

The Brandon-Morgan novels follow two families across several generations, and this volume belongs to the later part of that sequence.