Sea Fire

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Barbara Kartlend

Having sailed with Sir Francis Drake, swashbuckling privateer Rodney Hawkhurst yearns for a galleon of his own with which to plunder the Spanish Main in the name of Queen Elizabeth. Seeking investment from Sir Harry Gillingham, he has a fleeting encounter with an elfin, tomboyish golden-red-haired beauty – Sir Harry’s youngest daughter Lizbeth – and is bewitched by her limpid green eyes. Yet it is fair and golden-haired elder sister Phillida with whom he first falls in love... Granted his finances on the condition that Sir Harry’s weak, possibly even traitorous son sails with him in the hope that the mission will make him a man, Rodney embarks on a voyage of blood, honour and glory in which he gains great riches but loses his heart, not once, but twice. The risks are great but so are the rewards: wealth beyond compare and, as Rodney finally discovers, a greater, deeper, more passionate love than he ever imagined possible.

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Cordia Byers

Her family tricked her into a betrothal with an evil old man. There was nothing to do but run.... The first thing Callista did was disguise herself as a boy; which was not easy with her long raven locks and voluptuous body. But she managed to get herself hired as a cabin boy aboard a ship bound for America. Her secret was safe until she fell ill and the captain discovered she was a lovely young woman. He become obsessed with her. Finally he seduced her. This was the beginning of a strange love affair in which Callista found herself equally obsessed.

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Joan Overfield

Elly Denning and her brother are at loggerheads with Lord Seabrook over a country estate they all covet. What they only gradually come to realize is that the estate is also home to a persnickety ghost. When the adventurous, aristocratic Elinore Denning moves into a haunted mansion, she doesn't know which is more challenging--exposing the ghosts or handling her infuriatingly attractive new neighbor Lord Seabrook.

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Barbara Ferry Johnson

Leah #2 LEAH... Heartbroken and tortured by desire for her aristocratic Creole lover, Baptiste Fontaine, she flees New Orleans on a paddle-wheeler bound for the North - bound for a new life with James Andrews, the lawyer who save her from the gallows. But as she ascends the gangplank for the sail upriver, and the first whistle of departure sounds its mournful tune, she gazes back to the cypress-shrouded levee, where the eyes of a wounded man burn deeply into her own. Try to forget, the eyes said. Someday you will long to sail southward on that river... This is the sequel to *Delta Blood*.