
Bound by the Heart
Marsha Canham
A notorious privateer kidnaps the governor's daughter — who happens to be his enemy's fiancée.
Description
In this swashbuckling adventure Captain Morgan Wade, a notorious privateer and blockade-runner, rescues, then kidnaps the daughter of the British governor of Barbados after she and her brother are shipwrecked. Summer Cambridge is betrothed to Wade's arch-enemy, Commodore Bennett Winfield, who will go to any lengths, even start a war between two countries to get her back.
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