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John Jakes
THE BASTARD 9/1974 ISBN: 0515035084 The epic adventure and surging romance of the proud passionate men and women who made our nation.
Krista Janssen
INDIGO FIRE 9/1995 ISBN: 0671519077 A beautiful and boldly independent woman, Eden Palmer is driven by one desire-to save her family's South Carolina plantation from reverting to the English crown. In Barbados, she bargains with a former buccaneer to buy the secret for growing a profitable crop of indigo. But on her journey home Eden's ship is boarded by a band of pirates. And though she stands strong in the face of danger, she becomes powerfully drawn to the chip's courageous captain...Baron Derek von Walden is sailing, with his fellow Swiss colonists, to the untamed territory of South Carolina. Tormented by a tragic past he cannot forget, Derek is stunned to find his ravaged heart warming to the spirited Eden Palmer...Amidst the vast, magnolia scented forests of the Ashley River valley, Eden and Derek's love flourishes. Yet a devastating secret and a fateful fire bring their foundation of trust to ashes, and imperil the glorious passion they are destined to share.
WIND ROSE 2/1994 ISBN 0671744992 Emblazoned in Amanda's memory was the Englishman who saved her from an Indian raid on her family's Virginia plantation. Lord Hamilton had sailed away to become a wealthy privateer and Amanda had grown up a honey haired beauty, a hellion on horseback. He half brother offered Hamilton her hand in marriage. But her illusions were shattered when, instead of accepting, Braden Hamilton arranged a match with a stuttering aging marquess, a union that would pay her brothers debts...at the cost of her heart.
Miranda Jarrett
BAYBERRY AND MISTLETOE Short story in CHRISTMAS ROGUES 11/1995 ISBN: 0373832974
COLUMBINE 10/1992 ISBN: 0373287445 A New Land, A New Life... The wilds of New England had bested many a man, but could they tame one wanton woman? Kit Sparhawk had his doubts. Lady Dianna Grey had obviously been brought up a pampered English beauty, but beneath her soft exterior lay a heart as cold as stone. With her gentle world turned upside down by betrayal and accusation, Dianna prayed for a new beginning. Yet the Massachusetts landscape was rugged an unforgiving, as were the man. Especially Master Kit Sparhawk, whose disapproving glance revealed a heart as lonely as her own.
MARIAH'S PRIZE 7/1994 ISBN: 0373288271 Waves of desire washed over Mariah... And in their wake left a longing that could only be satisfied by one daring legend of a man: Capt. Gabriel Sparhawk...the most feared and respected privateer ever to command a warfaring sloop. With the salt spray whipping through her night-dark hair, Mariah West seemed a very sea nymph, fierce with pirate bravery. And Gabriel cursed the hunger that tempted him to succumb to her siren's song.
MOONLIGHT 6/1999 ISBN: 0671032615 As proprietor of the most fashionable shop in Boston, Amelie Lacroix knows all about creating the elegant style and glittering gowns her wealthy clients adore. But Amelie herself has no time for flirtatious games with eligible men -- until a magical wedding feast, where dashing sea captain Zach Fairbourne entices her into the garden for a moonlit kiss. Without warning, practical Amelie finds herself dreaming of love and romance in Zach's arms. Zach Fairbourne has been enchanted by women the world over, and in love with none. He thought Amelie would be a passing fancy, a pretty miss to dally with for a few sweet days while ashore. But the rich, deep passion of their kiss sets his heart reeling with dreams of a home, a family, and one woman to cherish for the rest of his life. And when the high sea call him back, Zach must test the waters of true love to find if hearts from two different worlds can somehow build a lasting bond to treasure.
THE SPARHAWK BRIDE 11/1995 ISBN: 0373288921 Love, Honor and Revenge... Michel Gericault had spent his entire life searching for the chance to restore honor to his father's memory. But nothing could have prepared him for what the Fates had decreed - that his stolen bride, Jerusa Sparhawk, would become the thief of his heart...! Though Jerusa Sparhawk fair dazzled as a rose-crowned bride, her girlish dreams of marriage were not to be. A soul-transforming passion in the person of Michael Gericault had swept her away from the bridal bower, near drowning her in his legacy of danger...and desire!
SPINDRIFT 5/1993 ISBN: 0373287747 From the moment she found the stranger washed up on her shore, Damaris knew her life would never be the same. For though he claimed to have lost his memory, rumors of pirates in Rhode Island's waters abounded, and Damaris could not dispel her fear that Jonathan had a violent past. When Jonathan Sparhawk finally come to, he was face-to-face with a prim-looking Quaker dressed in widow's weeds. Yet there was more to Damaris Allyn than met the eye, and Jonathan was fast discovering the dangerous waters that lay beneath her calm exterior.
STEAL THE STARS 3/1992 ISBN: 0373287151 Blessed with the devil's own luck, Captain Garner Griffin had outrun King George's fastest schooners as he smuggled guns to the American colonists preparing for revolt. Yet with a disreputable past and an uncertain future, he had nothing to offer the Rhode Island beauty who had stolen his heart. From the moment she saw Captain Griffin at the helm, with the wind in his hair and a smile on his handsome face, Eliza Raeburn knew that she loved him more than life itself. But their enemies were plotting against them, and she would soon have to decide whether to live without him, or face the gallows by his side...
SUNRISE 1/2000 ISBN: 0671032623 Washed ashore on a deserted beach by a storm at sea, the lovely woman has no idea of who she is or where she came from; she knows only that her name is Juliette. Though one thing is as clear as the morning sky: the handsome stranger who rescued her arouses in her a passion that she has never before experienced. For five years, in the wake of his young wife's death, the embittered Daniel Fairbourne has lived alone on Nantucket Island. But when he finds Juliette unconscious on the sand and tends her back to health, his sleeping heart reawakens. Sheltered in Daniel's tiny cottage, they discover a rare and wondrous love. But as Juliette's memory returns, Daniel knows that she will one day go back to the world outside his cottage walls -- a world that Daniel has little desire to rejoin.
WISHING 2/1999 ISBN: 0671003410 Captain Samson Fairbourne is a confirmed bachelor, a deep-water sailor happily wedded to his work. When he pens a description of the perfect, obedient wife, and hefts the missive overboard in a bottle, all he has in mind is a cutting joke to teach his young cousin a lesson on the foolishness of wishes -- and women. Instead, his prank leads him to Polly Bray, a hardworking seafarer who is about to shake his disparaging notions of femininity -- while reeling in his heart. Left an orphan in a Massachusetts fishing village, Polly dresses in boy's clothes to work aboard her father's fishing boat, the one possession he left her. Pulled under by a devastating storm at sea, she is rescued by Samson Fairbourne, and a sparkling, passionate bond takes hold. But the handsome captain seems determined to confine Polly to his limited view of womanhood. And Polly fears she must surrender her precious independence -- or cut the stubborn, impassioned Samson adrift....
Pamela Jekel
DEEPWATER: A Novel of the Carolinas 3/1994 ISBN: 0821744852 From the first settlement on Roanoke Island and the birth of Virginia Dare through the revolution that created a new nation and the Civil War that tore it apart, Pamela Jekel weaves a vast, colorful tapestry, bursting with the tempestuous beauty of the land, surging with human drama, and people with courageous women and bold men whose joys and sorrows forged the triumphant history that is the glory of the Carolinas.
SEA STAR: The Private Life of Anne Bonny, Pirate Queen 1983 ISBN: 0821745514 No ordinary love could hold Anne Bonny. She roamed the seas as free as any man...and loved more passionately than any woman. From the exquisite salons of colonial Charles Town to teeming, torrid Jamaica's shores, she fought for plunder and prizes, and enjoyed the rapture that came nightly to the bed of the "Pirate Queens." No prison could hold her. No man could tame her. Until she risked all for the true love that set her heart free...
Linda O. Johnston
POINT IN TIME 1/1998 ISBN: 0505522446 As a successful Hollywood executive, Mariah was on the lookout for the perfect screenplay, and she thought she had it. With an old-fashioned setting and Thorn, a hero to die for, she knew it would make a great movie. Then a visit to a historical park sent Mariah back in time-to frontier Fort Pitt, where she was rescued by a very real Thorn. Now that she'd found him, she wondered if they were doomed for a tragic Hollywood ending-or if she'd discover that, in affairs of the heart, real life seldom follows a script.
Donna Jordan
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE 9/2001 ISBN: 0821767496 Desperate to flee a scandalous romance, Lacey Cochran sets sail with scores of well-bred brides that The Virginia company is sending to its gentleman farmers in the New World. Though naught but a disgraced lady's maid, Lacey vows to earn the love of a good man, and make a new life for herself. But when John Bradford sweeps her off her feet and abducts her from the Virginia docks, she is shaken to her very soul. For years, John Bradford sought revenge on the company that stole him off the London streets and forced him to work in its fields. Striking out on his own, he made enough money to buy out the farmers the firm relied upon. And now, for one hundred and twenty bales of tobacco, he'll purchase a woman, then case her aside. But what begins as an act of defiance becomes something more when he sees Lacey. There is a yearning in her amber eyes that speaks to the emptiness in his heart. And soon he knows he will do anything to keep her, even pretend to be the civilized man she deserves.
Joan Joseph
LOVE'S FRANTIC FLIGHT 1980 ISBN: 0449143384 Her lover had been kidnapped. Her father had sold her into marriage with a money-gouging French scoundrel. Now, Jillian Wortley had received glorious news. Her beloved Leslie Hereford was alive in the New World. And Jillian had to escape.....
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