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A Scandal To Remember

A Scandal To Remember, September 2014
The Reckless Brides #5
by Elizabeth Essex

St. Martin's Press
Featuring: Charles Dance; Jane Burke
384 pages
ISBN: 1250044588
EAN: 9781250044587
Kindle: B00IHCNPCS
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"A Passionate Sailing Adventure"

Fresh Fiction Review

A Scandal To Remember
Elizabeth Essex

Reviewed by Lee Erin Berryhill
Posted December 7, 2014

Romance | Romance Historical

Lieutenant Charles Dance is not impressed with his new post on the survey ship Tenacious. A lazy crew and broken down ship tries his patients at every turn. And when the naturalists he is to take to South America arrives, he realizes his patients will be tried to the brink when blue stoking Jane Burke insists she come aboard. When the ship goes down and Jane and Dance become stranded on a remote island their passion ignites. Now Dance is determined to have Jane's love forever. Elizabeth Essex has written a fast paced adventure combined expertly with steamy romance. Readers will be able to feel the sparks between Dance and Jane who are both strong characters, and their witty sexual tension will have readers falling in love with them. A SCANDAL TO REMEMBER is brought to life in vivid detail as the reader sails with the crew of Tenacious a ship riddled with friction. The antagonists are deadly and sometimes surprising, and will keep readers guessing as to the true villain's identity. Essex remembers every detail of the setting, and readers will easily be able to picture the doomed Tenacious, the rolling waves of the ocean, and the secluded island that becomes Dance and Jane's paradise. A SCANDAL TO REMEMBER is a sailing adventure readers won't want to miss out on.

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SUMMARY

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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