To
Tame the Wind
The
Donet Trilogy Book 1
by
Regan Walker
Genre:
Historical Romance
“A
sea adventure like no other, a riveting romance!” – SHIRLEE
BUSBEE, NY Times Bestselling author
Paris
1782…AN INNOCENT IS TAKEN
All
Claire Donet knew was the world inside the convent walls in
Saint-Denis. She had no idea her beloved papa was a pirate. But when
he seized Simon Powell's schooner, the English privateer decided to
take the thing his enemy held most dear...her.
A
BATTLE IS JOINED
The
waters between France and England roil with the clashes of Claire's
father and her captor as the last year of the American Revolution
rages on the sea, spies lurk in Paris and Claire’s passion for the
English captain rises.
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The door of the carriage swung open, a gown was tossed into her lap
and a broad shouldered man filled the opening.
Claire’s jaw went slack while her heart kicked into a gallop as if
responding of its own accord to the first man to stir it from slumber.
“Bonjour, Mademoiselle
Donet,” he said in French. “Captain Simon Powell.” He bowed in grand gesture.
“Your humble servant with something for you to wear.”
The golden one. It had been nearly two years since she had seen him, but
she had never forgotten the night of the masquerade. She had never forgotten
him. Though the linen shirt stretched tight across his broad chest and the leather
breeches and boots he wore now were a far cry from the shimmering costume he’d
worn then, his amber eyes were the same. Impossibly, he was even more handsome
that in her faded memory. In the last two years, he had never been far from her
thoughts, for the night she’d first seen him—and imagined a man’s pleasure—was
the night Claire’s girlish dreams had ended forever.
And now he’d returned to France and abducted her.
He leaned into the carriage and untied her feet, then her wrists.
The touch of his rough man’s hands on her skin sent odd chills rippling through
her. She bit her lip, shamed by her body’s reaction to this stranger. Her
living temptation turned away for a moment, then faced her, a cup in his
outstretched hand. “’Tis only water,” he said when she was reluctant to take
it.
Too grateful to complain, she hastily brought the fresh water to her
dry lips and drank her fill.
“I’ll give you some time to dress,” he said not unkindly. His eyes shifted
to her blanket-covered nightclothes. “I wouldn’t want my men to see you as you
are.”
Claire felt her cheeks burn at the thought.
“The gown is modest enough to please even your nuns,” he said. “Call
me if you need… ah, assistance. I will be just outside.”
She fumed at his insolence, at his actions that had placed her at
his mercy. Though she knew he was English and a privateer, she had no idea why
he had taken her, and she would wait no longer to learn the truth of it. “Why
did you bring me here? Why did you take me from the convent?”
Leaning one arm against the frame of the carriage, he regarded her
intently, his eyes like chips of amber.
“You have your father to thank for that, mademoiselle. As soon as he
returns what is mine you will have your freedom.”
Claire blinked. “My father?” Her voice sounded to her like the
pleading of a feeble schoolgirl. She would not be cowed! She lifted her chin,
confident in his error. “What has he to do with this… this perfidy? Papa is a
man of business and letters, a man of some wealth. He has no need to steal!”
His mouth twitched up in a grin, drawing Claire’s gaze to his
sensual lips, reminding her of a night when she had seen him use those lips to
good effect. She scowled, angry with the rogue and with herself for finding him
so attractive.
He shut the door of the carriage and peered in through the open
window. “Your father, mademoiselle, is a pirate.”
TO TAME THE WIND
Copyright © 2015
Regan Walker
Echo
in the Wind
The
Donet Trilogy Book 2
"Regan
Walker sweeps you away to a time and place you'll NEVER want to
leave!" ~ Danelle Harmon, NY Times & USA Today Bestselling
Author
England
and France 1784
Cast
out by his noble father for marrying the woman he loved, Jean Donet
took to the sea, becoming a smuggler, delivering French brandy and
tea to the south coast of England. When his young wife died, he
nearly lost his sanity. In time, he became a pirate and then a
privateer, vowing to never again risk his heart.
As
Donet’s wealth grew, so grew his fame as a daring ship’s captain,
the terror of the English Channel in the American War. When his
father and older brother die in a carriage accident in France, Jean
becomes the comte de Saintonge, a title he never wanted.
Lady
Joanna West cares little for London Society, which considers her its
darling. Marriage in the ton is either dull or disastrous. She wants
no part of it. To help the poor in Sussex, she joins in their
smuggling. Now she is the master of the beach, risking her reputation
and her life. One night off the coast of Bognor, Joanna encounters
the menacing captain of a smuggling ship, never realizing he is the
mysterious comte de Saintonge.
Can
Donet resist the English vixen who entices him as no other woman?
Will Lady Joanna risk all for an uncertain chance at love in the arms
of the dashing Jean Donet?
A
Fierce Wind
The
Donet Trilogy Book 3
"Simply
Magnificent!" – Stew Ross, author of Where Did They Put the
Guillotine?
France
1794.
Zoé Ariane Donet was in love with love until she met the young
commander of the royalist army fighting the revolutionaries tearing
apart France. When the dashing young general is killed, she joins the
royalist cause, rescuing émigrés fleeing Robespierre’s Reign of
Terror.
One
man watches over her: Frederick West, the brother of an English earl,
who has known Zoé since she was a precocious ten-year-old child. At
sixteen, she promised great beauty, the flower of French womanhood
about to bloom. Now, four years later, as the Terror seizes France by
the throat, Zoé has become a beautiful temptress Freddie vows to
protect with his life.
But
English spies don’t live long in Revolutionary France.
Regan
Walker is an award-winning, #1 Amazon bestselling author of Regency,
Georgian and Medieval romances. She writes historically authentic
novels with real historical figures along with her fictional
characters. Among the awards she has won are the International Book
Award for Romance Fiction, the San Diego Book Award for Best
Historical Romance, the RONE Award for her medievals and the Gold
Medal Illumination Award.
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1 comment:
Hi, Karyn! Thanks so much for featuring The Donet Trilogy on your lovely blog. I do hope your followers enjoy seafaring romances with handsome ship captains.
Regan
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