Romantic Times, 1990: "Four and a half stars -- highest rating! A very touching love story
with a hero most readers would kill for."
Affaire de Coeur: "Four and a half stars -- highest rating!
A sensual, powerful love story!" Awarded "Favorite Hostorical Romance" of 1990!
Romantic Times, 1991: "Named Best "Restoration Romance of 1989-1990."
"It is a strange twist of fate that brings Edwina Crawford and London wine-merchant Drake
Steel together. Edwina must wed or forfeit her plantation. Drake must marry or be executed
as a pirate. Tall, determined and outspoken, Edwina is not at all like Drake's first wife,
his sweet-tempered Anne. Yet Drake is strobgly attracted to Edwina, wanting more than a
marriage in name only. Edwina distrusts men, especially handsome men like Drake. Yet, she
cannot help but fall in love with him."
