Hugh is on a mission of murder: he is desperate to get revenge on the swine who murdered his beloved older brother, even if he has to travel through time to do it. Hugh intends to kill his brother's murderer and take a certain map back to his own time in order to ruin the man's future happiness and wealth. However, in his quest for revenge, accompanied by two other time-travelers, he discovers that the person he had always hoped to protect is in the way of his vengeance.
Joss would do almost anything to keep her mother's little map-making company, Brand O'Malley, afloat, and she thinks she is marrying the prince who will help her do just that. Instead, with some urging from her friend, she starts to realize she may need some more adventure in her life. When an angry time-travelling sea-captain ends up naked in her office, she realizes that she may have more adventure than she can handle!
ACHING FOR ALWAYS is a fantastic book: not only is the storyline interesting, the way it is told is excellent. Cready does a fantastic job weaving snippets of narrative styles into the work to keep the plot flowing.
RITA Awardβwinning author Gwyn Cready continues the βsexy
funβ (BookPage) of her charming time-travel adventures with
a high-spirited tale of a modern-day mapmaker and the
eighteenth-century English navy captain she canβt resist.
Ambitious and feisty Josephine βJossβ OβMalley has spent
years fighting to keep her motherβs map-making company
alive. Just when she finds herself considering taking a
risky next step with bad-boy entrepreneur Rogan Reynoldsβ
whose generosity has helped keep the business afloatβJoss
meets dark and mysterious Hugh Hawksmoor. Hughβs deft touch
and old-world seduction stir Jossβs desires like a storm at
sea, and she has no clue that he has sailed three hundred
years into the future to avenge the death of his brother at
the hands of her father. Or that she holds the key to a map
that will help him undo the destructive changes her father
wrought in the past.
When Hugh lures Joss into a treacherous journey through
time, thereβs not a twenty-first-century trick that can save
her. But when she applies her own instincts to a course she
thought was set, she discovers that the high seas hold some
scandalous surprises.
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