It had been so easy... easy to give in to his hungry kisses, his urgent passion, and her own desperate longing.... But the aftermath had been the most difficult experience of her young life. Kate Austin had fled the past, determined to deny the reckless impulses that had led her to break her engagement to Phillip Hughes... led to the car accident that had taken Phillip's life. And now Nathan Cordell was back. He strode into her life with the arrogance of a man who had only taken what was his due. Relentless, remorseless, he challenged her to surrender guilt, to acknowledge her own smoldering desire, and to abandon herself once again in his arms.
Donna Jean Kimel was born 10 November 1947 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, daughter of Eva Lee Smith and Terry T. Kimel. She studied English at Appalachian State University. In 1969, she married Richard John Vitek, and they had two children: Marie Vitek (Monroe) and Thomas Richard Vitek.
She wrote 34 romance novels as Donna AlexanderDonna Vitek, and Donna Kimel Vitek from 1979 to 1987. She was member of the Author's Guild and Romance Writers of America. Donna Jean Kimel Vitek passed away on 18 October 2003 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.