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Almost a Scandal

Elizabeth Essex · 400 pages

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Captive Passions

Fern Michaels · 448 pages

Historical romance. Seeking revenge against the pirates who killed her sister, Sirena Cordez takes to the high seas herself as the pirate Sea Siren.

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Across a Moonlit Sea

Marsha Canham · 400 pages

Rescuing a man whose ship had been floundering at sea, Isabeau Spense takes aboard ruthless privateer Simon Dante, who promptly seizes command of Beau's ship and sets out to win the lovely maiden's heart and mind.

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Drums of Autumn

Diana Gabaldon · 983 pages

The magnificent saga continues....It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past--or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend--a tale of tragic passion that ended with her retur

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The Captain of All Pleasures

Kresley Cole · 370 pages

Sutherland Series (Book 1) In her exhilarating debut novel, Kresley Cole captures the drama, passion, and boundless adventure of the high seas -- as one fiery lass finds herself caught in a tide of torrid romance. Raised as a free spirit aboard her American sea captain father's majestic clipper ship, willful Nicole Lassiter has never encountered an obstacle she couldn't overcome -- until she m

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The Hidden Heart

Laura Kinsale · 384 pages

When her eccentric naturalist father dies on the upper reaches of the Amazon, young Lady Tess Collier sets out to follow his last wishes: return to England and marry well. But Tess, who had accompanied her father on his expeditions since childhood, is as unconventional as she is beautiful.

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Lady Vixen

Shirlee Busbee · 538 pages

Beautiful, headstrong Nicole Ashford, 18, was yet untouched by passion, but destined for adventure - and pleasure - beyond anything a woman of her time had ever known. Outwitting a ruthless plot against her, she fled her aristocratic England home on a privateer's ship bound for the luxurious pirate havens of New Orleans - and exquisite abandon in Bermuda's hidden coves. Yet the very daring of h

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Counterfeit Lady

Jude Deveraux · 384 pages

Nicole was a passionate French beauty, kidnapped by mistake and swept across turbulent seas...to be the bride of a stranger. In eighteenth-century Virginia, the lush lands embraced the rivers that bounded the great plantations. There Clayton awaited his English lady...but when he showered his bride with ardent kisses, the woman he found in his arms was Nicole Courtalain!

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Devil's Embrace

Catherine Coulter · 416 pages

CITY OF SIN For beautiful 18 year old Cassandra Brougham, the seething city of Genoa, Italy, seemed a world away from the great 18th-century English estate where she was raised--and the closest she had ever come to purgatory. Cassie was no longer an innocent when she arrived there with 34 year old Lord Anthony Welles, the brutally handsome aristocrat who had seduced and stolen her from he

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Everlasting

Angie Frazier

In 1855, seventeen-year-old Camille sets out from San Francisco, California, on her last sea voyage before entering a loveless marriage, but when her father's ship is destroyed, she and a friend embark on a cross-Australian quest to find her long-lost mother who holds a map to a magical stone, hoping to reach it before her father's business rival can.

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Catherine and the Pirate

Karen Hawkins · 264 pages

"Born to a prominent Boston family, Catherine Markham is a bit of a hellion despite her gentle upbringing. Stifled by the rules imposed by society, Catherine yearns for adventure. When her beloved brother is kidnapped, she decides to deliver the ransom herself -- with the help of a young man few others might turn to.The Pirate Derrick St. John lives on the edge. The memory of his dead father ta

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Only With Your Love

Lisa Kleypas · 416 pages

Celia Vallerand, 24, fears for her life as she stares into the deep, arresting eyes of the dashing man who purchased her from the brigands who had abducted her. But it soon becomes clear that it's her virtue, not her life, that's in danger. The 25 year old rugged, powerful renegade known only as "Griffin" arouses desires in Celia as dangerous as they are forbidden. And though she knows she must r

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Captured

Victoria Lynne

Surviving a difficult youth on the streets of Liverpool, Devon Blake escapes to America where she is accused of treason and sentenced to death, only to fall into the hands of the dynamic Captain Cole McRae.

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The Heiress of Winterwood

Sarah E. Ladd · 317 pages

Darbury, England, 1814. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word -- even to the point of proposing to Graham, the child's father -- a sea captain she's never met.

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The Pirate Bride

Shannon Drake · 378 pages

Those who survive the wrath of Red Robert would never guess the pirate's secret--Red Robert is a woman, masquerading as a man. Yet though the swift steel of her sword has spread her reputation to the farthest corners of the map, there is only one treasure she seeks--the blood of her lifelong nemesis...Blair Colm.Shipwrecked on a desert isle with the handsome Logan Hagarty, she soon rediscovers her

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The Raven Saint

M.L. Tyndall, MaryLu Tyndall

When Grace Westcott is kidnapped by a French mercenary, tossed aboard his ship, and told she will be sold to a Spanish Don, she can’t imagine what she did to deserve such a fate. She has spent her entire life serving God and helping the poor, Believing God sent her to preach to the vile captain and his crew, Grace’s attempts are rewarded with mockery. When her situation grows worse, she is forced

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The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd

Paula Quinn · 378 pages

"An innocent stowaway. As the sheltered niece of a Highland chief, Caitrina Grant longs for adventure beyond the lush hills of Scotland. So when a pirate ship glides into the loch, tempting her with promises of exotic lands and hidden treasures, Trina sneaks aboard. But she is unprepared for the consequences-and the seductive captain who demands the ultimate price for her deception... A sinful pir

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Beguiling the Beauty

Sherry Thomas · 296 pages

"When the Duke of Lexington meets the mysterious Baroness von Seidlitz-Hardenberg on a transatlantic liner, he is fascinated. She's exactly what he has been searching for--a beautiful woman who interests and entices him. He falls hard and fast--and soon proposes marriage. And then she disappears without a trace-- For in reality, the "baroness" is Venetia Easterbrook--a proper young widow who had

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Burning Bright

Melissa McShane

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No Choice But Seduction

Johanna Lindsey · 384 pages

(The ninth book in the Malory Family series) ON A WHIRLWIND ADVENTURE, SHOULD SHE SURRENDER TO HIS BOLD CHARMS? When Sir Anthony Malory's young daughter is abducted from London's Hyde Park, her kidnapper's ransom note mistakenly falls into the hands of a Malory relative, the sea captain Boyd Anderson. Searching for the girl with Anthony, Boyd fully intends to make the foolhardy villain pay.

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The Windflower

Laura London, Sharon Curtis, Tom Curtis

Merry Wilding was taken from a ship bound from New York to England and swept aboard the infamous Black Joke.... From the storm-tossed Atlantic to the languid waters of the Gulf Stream, from a smuggler's den to a gilded mansion, Merry struggled to escape... to escape the prison of her own reckless passions, the bondage of sweet, bold desire.... SHE LONGED FOR A PIRATE'S KISSES, FOR A GOLDEN ROGU

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Lord of Temptation

Lorraine Heath · 376 pages

"Three young heirs, imprisoned by an unscrupulous uncle, have escaped to the sea, to the streets, to faraway battle awaiting the day when they will return to reclaim their birthright. Once upon a time, he was Lord Tristan Easton--now he is Crimson Jack, a notorious privateer beholden to none, whose only mistress is the sea. But all that will change when exquisite Lady Anne Hayworth hires his prote

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Master of Seduction

Kinley MacGregor · 352 pages

The infamous pirate Black Jack Rhys never encountered a ship he could not board or a woman he could not bed. But the dashing brigand may have met his match in the fiery beauty who has vowed to bring him to justice ...A fearless, flame-haired enchantress, Lorelei Dupree believes she has a duty to her fiance and to the city of Charleston to help end the reign of the notorious Black Jack. But when th

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The Elusive Flame

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss · 458 pages

The extraordinary Birmingham Family Saga continues in The Elusive Flame -- it commences in The Flame and the Flower and concludes in A Season Beyond a Kiss. (All Kathleen E. Woodiwiss titles are available from PerfectBound.)A sweeping tale of passion, romance and adventure, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss' groundbreaking classic The Flame and the Flower remains as beloved today as when it first appeared in

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