TO TEMPT AN HEIRESS BY SUSANNA CRAIG
- Publisher: Kensington Publishing/Lyrical Press (December 6, 2016)
- Publication Date: December 6, 2016
- ASIN: B01CWYTJU8
Blurb:
After
her beloved father dies, Tempest Holderin wants nothing more than to fulfill
his wish to free the slaves on their Antiguan sugar plantation. But the now
wealthy woman finds herself pursued by a pack of unsavory suitors with
other plans for her inheritance. To keep her from danger, her dearest friend
arranges a most unconventional solution: have Tempest kidnapped and taken to
safety.
Captain Andrew Corrvan has a reputation as a ruthless, money-hungry blackguard—but those on his ship know differently. He is driven by only one thing: the quest to avenge his father’s death on the high seas. Until he agrees to abduct a headstrong heiress…
If traveling for weeks—without a chaperone—isn’t enough to ruin Tempest, the desire she feels for her dark and dangerously attractive captor will do the rest. The storm brewing between them will only gather strength when they reach England, where past and present perils threaten to tear them apart—even more so than their own stubborn hearts…
Captain Andrew Corrvan has a reputation as a ruthless, money-hungry blackguard—but those on his ship know differently. He is driven by only one thing: the quest to avenge his father’s death on the high seas. Until he agrees to abduct a headstrong heiress…
If traveling for weeks—without a chaperone—isn’t enough to ruin Tempest, the desire she feels for her dark and dangerously attractive captor will do the rest. The storm brewing between them will only gather strength when they reach England, where past and present perils threaten to tear them apart—even more so than their own stubborn hearts…
Excerpt:
Reflected
sunlight limned her profile: the gentle curve of her jaw, the translucence of
her skin, the sunrise shimmer of her hair. Hers was a pale, radiant beauty,
like an eggshell held up to a candle’s flame, or a spider’s web touched with
dew at dawn. Fragile.
Without
conscious thought, Andrew’s left hand rose, his fingertips eager to trace the
highlighted features of her face. But before he reached her, she turned
slightly to face him. Her close-cropped curls made her wide eyes look even
larger. As her gaze locked with his, he was reminded that the true beauty of
delicate things sometimes lay in their unexpected strength.
Tempest.
He
could not be sure which he named—the woman, or the storm-clouded depths of her
eyes. In this moment, they were one and the same.
Her
throat worked. “I suppose I haven’t much choice, have I?”
“No.”
And
with that monosyllable he condemned himself to spending an eternity at sea with
her. Forty days, give or take.
And
forty nights.
Once,
on a schoolboy dare, he had asked the rector what the people on the ark did all
day, in such cramped confines, surrounded by all those animals no doubt giving
in to their animal natures, what with being so perfectly paired and all. He had
been soundly thrashed for his insolence—or had it been sacrilege? In any case,
the rector had refused to answer the question.
Nevertheless,
Andrew had had a good idea then, and a better one now, how a man and a woman,
trapped together for six weeks, might be tempted to pass the time. Which was
why he never allowed women aboard his ship.
His
hand dropped.
“Do
you know, Captain Corrvan, I half-expected you to suggest I might save myself
by marrying you,” she said. If she
had seen the movement of his arm, she gave no indication.
“I can promise you that such a
thought never crossed my mind.”
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