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"Fantastic sequel to THE CAPTAIN OF ALL PLEASURES."
Reviewed by Suzanne Tucker
Posted June 4, 2004

Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, fulfilling a promise made to a frail old man. He will find his granddaughter, protect her with his life and bring her safely home. If his journey is successful, he'll claim Belmont Court, Victoria's ancestral home, as his own. A man Read more...

"A funny romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 9, 2004

In 1850, a storm wrecks the ship Serendipity. Young Victoria Dearbourne, her mom and her pragmatic companion Miss Cammy Scott survive the disaster having been shipwrecked on an Oceania deserted island. Not long afterward, Victoria's mom dies from her injuries. Eight years later, Victoria's grandfather hired Captain Grant Sutherland Read more...

Summary

A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word—as a gentleman—to find and protect her. But one look at a grown Victoria and Grant has never felt less like one.

Tori relishes freedom, untamed passion, and spontaneity above stifling order. Even more so when a proud, cold British captain arrives to rescue her, though she has no wish to be. As Grant tries to convince her to leave her island home, she begins to see in him a man hungering for more. A man who once laughed. A man who desires her but won't take what she offers.

Grant struggles to control his own savage passions—and fails, Tori must decide what she wants more—her unfettered independence or the only man who could tame her wild heart....