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==Book Description==
 
==Book Description==
  
Pirate captain Thayer Drake lures ships onto reefs for plunder, and business is lucrative. Yet, saving a lass from drowning after her ship wrecks becomes more than he bargained for when the crazy wench dives back into the raging sea for her blasted purse.
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MARISOL CASTELLAN is desperate to find her younger brother to reclaim the love of family her father never provided them. She manages to intercept a message containing her brother’s whereabouts, but must find a way to meet the ship he’s on. BLADE TYBURN has been known by many names – privateer, opportunist, pirate, and his favorite, libertine. All true. What he is not is tolerant. He’s furious to realize a vital keepsake from his troubled childhood was stolen by the wench he saved in the inn. But Marisol strikes a bargain—the cameo for passage to her brother. Blade agrees, and, though he knows his childhood sins make him unworthy of love, he begins to crave it with beautiful Marisol aboard ship. Marisol can’t allow herself distraction from her all-important mission, and besides, her murderous father would never allow a match with such a powerful rival no matter how attractive he’s become to her. And when her brother is found with the silver and a fishy story, Blade has reason to be more suspicious of Marisol and her intentions. But will Marisol and Blade be able to survive the deadly betrayal that awaits one of them and confess their true feelings for each other? Or does their love have no more chance of survival than A Kiss in the Wind?
 
 
Tavern songstress Gilly McCoy, penniless and fleeing from the man who murdered her lover, stowed away on the doomed ship. Now at Drake's mercy, Gilly must earn her passage by performing for the captain. And that is not all: she must also kiss the captain at every ring of the ship's bell. But she discovers kissing the handsome rogue is not entirely a bad bargain...
 
 
 
Drake is intrigued by the beauty, but there is no room in his black heart for a woman. He has demons that he drinks nightly to forget. Meanwhile, Gilly has her own secrets to keep--including why her purse is more valuable to her than her life...
 
  
  
 
== Awards ==  
 
== Awards ==  
2009 1st place Ohio Valley Romance Writers Summer Sizzle
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2009 1st place Ohio Valley Romance Writers, Summer Sizzle contest
  
2009 1st place Oklahoma Romance Writers Finally A Bride contest
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2009 1st place Oklahoma Romance Writers, Finally A Bride contest
  
2009 3rd place Hearts Through History Romance Writers Romance Through the Ages contest
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2009 3rd place Hearts Through History, Romance Writers Romance Through the Ages contest
  
  

Revision as of 19:54, 1 March 2013


Book Description

MARISOL CASTELLAN is desperate to find her younger brother to reclaim the love of family her father never provided them. She manages to intercept a message containing her brother’s whereabouts, but must find a way to meet the ship he’s on. BLADE TYBURN has been known by many names – privateer, opportunist, pirate, and his favorite, libertine. All true. What he is not is tolerant. He’s furious to realize a vital keepsake from his troubled childhood was stolen by the wench he saved in the inn. But Marisol strikes a bargain—the cameo for passage to her brother. Blade agrees, and, though he knows his childhood sins make him unworthy of love, he begins to crave it with beautiful Marisol aboard ship. Marisol can’t allow herself distraction from her all-important mission, and besides, her murderous father would never allow a match with such a powerful rival no matter how attractive he’s become to her. And when her brother is found with the silver and a fishy story, Blade has reason to be more suspicious of Marisol and her intentions. But will Marisol and Blade be able to survive the deadly betrayal that awaits one of them and confess their true feelings for each other? Or does their love have no more chance of survival than A Kiss in the Wind?


Awards

2009 1st place Ohio Valley Romance Writers, Summer Sizzle contest

2009 1st place Oklahoma Romance Writers, Finally A Bride contest

2009 3rd place Hearts Through History, Romance Writers Romance Through the Ages contest


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