Travelling on the high seas to Savannah, Georgia, fiery beauty Kathleen Haley finds herself powerfully attracted to the dashing and dangerous Captain Reed Taylor, and when circumstances force them to marry, she must endure his brutal passions and his secret alliance with pirates, which prompts her s

    No one has a good time on a pirate ship. No one, that is, but the pirates. Yet there she was, Merry Wilding - kidnapped in error, taken from a ship bound from New York to England, spirited away in a barrel and swept aboard the infamous Black Joke....There she was, trembling with pleasure in the arms of her achingly handsome, sensationally sensual, golden-haired captor - Devon. From the storm-tossed Atlantic to the languid waters of the Gulf Stream, from a smuggler's den to a gilded mansion, Merry struggled to escape...to escape the prison of her own reckless passions, the bondage of sweet, bold desire...

    Its hundreds of miles of navigable tributaries made adoption of the tobacco staple possible and eliminated the necessity of cities and towns; its physical dominance created an essencial unity of lands sharing its shores, despite the political decisions that created separate colonies of Maryland and Virgina. Middleton recaptures the peril faced by the early colonists (Father Andrew White, who arrived in the Ark, wrote that all the Sprights and witches of Maryland seemed arrayed in battle against the ship whn violent storms struck off the coast) and traces how the sttlers persevered and the colonies thrived, due in great measure to the growth of tobacco as the mainstray of Chesapeake commerce (in 1775 it represented over 75 precent of the total value of exports from the Chesapeake colonies and was worth some $4 million).Colonial life and commerce, shipbuilding and the merchant marine, privateers and self-protection--all are treated with insight, drama, and thoroughness in a fascinating maritime history, long out of print and now made widely available for the first time.

    Immediately he swept her away, setting sail for his home in South Carolina. On board ship, Katherine soon discovered that her new husband was not the foppish Julian, but Julian's younger brother, Kit, the virile captain of a privateer whose mission was to prevent British soldiers and arms from reaching the embattled Colonies.Though shocked at Kit's deception, Katherine could not resist his fiery touch, giving her heart completely to the dashing impostor, though she feared he did not reciprocate her love.But Charleston held even greater torment for Katherine, when she met the real Julian Warwick --- and Rachel, Kit's ravishing fiance!

    Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.

    

    Yet from the moment she met Bryce Fowler in Key West, her heart was his. He claimed her in a forbidden night of ecstasy, only to have treachery threaten to part them forever.