Pirate's Desire: Being a Tale of a Lady's Adventure at Sea

London 1717: Corwyn Tyler Chase, a passionate, intelligent, beautiful innocent fresh from the wilds of the West Country is being hotly pursued by Lord Henry Norfolk, the city's most vicious and well-related rake hell. Devon Black, the Earl of Kettering, has just taken his place as heir to his father's lands after murdering the Uncle who stole them. Living in London, among the Ton, he can almost forget the twenty years he lived as a prisoner and then a pirate in the West Indies, years...
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London 1717: Corwyn Tyler Chase, a passionate, intelligent, beautiful innocent fresh from the wilds of the West Country is being hotly pursued by Lord Henry Norfolk, the city's most vicious and well-related rake hell. Devon Black, the Earl of Kettering, has just taken his place as heir to his father's lands after murdering the Uncle who stole them. Living in London, among the Ton, he can almost forget the twenty years he lived as a prisoner and then a pirate in the West Indies, years that left him an unforgiving, brutal and brilliant man. When Corwyn embroils Black in a lovers triangle that costs him everything yet again, he vows she will pay the price with her body and soul. From the Author Pirate's Desire is a tightly-written eighty-thousand word romance about powerful, violent, men in the 18th Century and an intelligent, insightful, gentlewoman who falls afoul of them. In a larger sense it is about passion, strength, revenge and redemption. It has rather a lot of sexy love scenes, but it is also pretty true to life . . . In the 18th century slavery, indenture and incredible poverty were commonplace. Men and women were not equal, and the wealthy had "rights" the poor did not. The book, amidst all the love scenes, is about how people actually lived. Some historical romances, even some great ones, are costume dramas or farces involving mistaken identities, misunderstandings, long lost twins . . . This is not that kind of book. If you always thought Jane Eyre would have been better with a few explicit love scenes, or always wanted to know what happened behind closed doors in Wuthering Heights, you will like this book. If you thought Jamaica Inn was really great, but always wished Joss would take a more "active" interest in Mary Yellen, then I think you will like this book a lot. Every author wants to write the kind of book they like to read and I like very serious romances about very smart, passionate, determined people. I hope you like them too. Andreya Stuart