"fun Malory Regency romance"

As her mother's health declined, eighteen-year-old Gabrielle knowing that Clara's time was soon ending she decided she would leave England to seek out her father, merchant ship Captain Nathan Brooks, who lives in the Caribbean. Though prepared, Gabrielle is distraught when her mother dies, but courageously while mourning her loss leaves for the Caribbean to live with her dad. To her shock, Gabrielle learns that her father is an outlawed pirate and even more stunning, she enjoys the lifestyle of searching for treasure on the High Seas.

However, when she turns twenty-one, Nathan concludes his daughter needs a different life closer to that of his late wife who rejected his. Though he will miss her as he loves his daughter he sends a reluctant Gabrielle to his former comrade in piracy, aristocrat James Malory and his spouse Georgina to sponsor her in polite society. In London, the Malorys and Georgina's brother, American Sea Captain Drew Anderson, escort Gabrielle to the galas. However, as Gabrielle decides Drew is for her, he tries to eludes her because even though he is attracted to her, he prefers his woman in every port lifestyle. When he accidentally humiliates her at a ball, she vows revenge pirate style. Gabrielle with her father's crew at her side captures Drew making him her prisoner or are both prisoners of love.

The extended Malory Regency romance (see A LOVING SCOUNDREL) will please fans of the series though nothing new is added to the Lindsay formula. However the audience will enthusiastically appreciate the battle of the sexes between the pirate's daughter and the ex-pirate's brother- in-law. Gabrielle is a fun heroine not afraid to go after what she seeks while Drew knows if he tastes the passion he sees in her eyes, he is doomed to be her captive forever. Johann Lindsay's fans will enjoy her latest pirate romance.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 29, 2006

Summary

Johanna Lindsey sweeps readers into the privileged world of English aristocrats and the exotic haunts of Caribbean treasure hunters in a new novel of passion and romantic adventure featuring the incomparable Malorys—a family of dashing rogues, spirited ladies, and rakehell adventurers. Now American rogue Drew Anderson meets his match when his brother-in-law James Malory introduces the daughter of a pirate to London society.

Devastated by her mother's death, eighteen-year-old Gabrielle Brooks sets sail from England to a Caribbean island in search of her estranged father. But instead of encountering a distinguished merchant ship's captain, she discovers her father has become a pirate! After spending three wonderful years sailing and treasure hunting with him, Gabrielle is dismayed when her father decides she must return to London to find a proper husband. His old friend James Malory will sponsor her in polite society.

In London, Gabrielle is escorted to balls and parties by James Malory's wife, Georgina, and her brother, Drew Anderson, a dashing American sea captain who is visiting. Though drawn to Gabrielle's fiery beauty, Drew, a fun-loving rogue, wants nothing to do with a young woman hunting for a husband. Incensed by Drew's indifference, Gabrielle is determined to win his attentions. But when Drew embroils her in a scandal the night before he's to sail back to America, Gabrielle vows revenge. Enlisting the help of her father's pirate cronies, Gabrielle commandeers Drew's ship and takes him prisoner. But as passion runs high on their sea voyage, it becomes difficult to tell who is truly the captor and who is the captive.

With the humor, lovable characters, and romantic intensity that have distinguished Johanna Lindsey's seven previous Malory novels and placed them in the ranks of the best-loved and most widely read romantic novels of our time, Captive of My Desires tells a passionate love story that will capture your heart and never let go....