The Reckless Brides #5
St. Martin's Press
September 2014
On Sale: August 26, 2014
Featuring: Charles Dance; Jane Burke
384 pages ISBN: 1250044588 EAN: 9781250044587 Kindle: B00IHCNPCS Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
The rules of courtship are swept out to sea when a shipwreck offers a Reckless Bride a true taste of paradise… CAN A WHIRLWIND ROMANCE In Elizabeth Essex's A Scandal to Remember, for too long, Miss Jane Burke’s father has taken advantage of her painstaking research. Heading to the South Seas to make her own name as a scientist despite the crew’s insistence that a woman aboard is bad luck, she isn’t prepared to be championed by a handsome ship’s officer who rouses longings inside her as wild as any storm… LEAD TO A PROPER PROPOSAL? For Lieutenant Charles Dance, a post on His Majesty’s survey ship Tenacious is just one more dutiful rung on the ladder of his career. Even a headstrong bluestocking on board is less troubling than the ship’s drunken captain— and the ferocious gales that drive the ship off course. Stranded on a remote island, passion blazes between them as hot as the sun, but it’s Jane’s love that Charles wants forever…
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