Monday, May 7, 2018

Review: The Last Duke by Andrea Kane

Title: The Last Duke
Series: Thornton-Bromleigh Family
Author: Andrea Kane
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: October 2, 2012
Publisher: Open Road Media
ASIN: B0099J39HY

Lady Daphne Wyndham is the only child of the brutal Marquis of Tragmore. Risking a beating each time she sneaks away to help the local vicar, Daphne fantasizes about the legendary Tin Cup Bandit, who robs the rich to aid the poor. His scandalous exploits inflame her rebellious spirit and fire her romantic imagination. And when he appears in her bedroom, she suspects all her wild dreams may come true...

Pierce Thornton grew up in a British workhouse, and now thirsts for vengeance against the nobility—and the Marquis of Tragmore. As he plots to ruin Tragmore, a twist of fate opens an unexpected door, allowing him to fulfill his life-long crusade: bringing the fashionable world to its knees. But in the process he encounters a far greater peril...losing his heart to Daphne Wyndham.


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Saturday, May 5, 2018

Review: The Far Horizon by Marsha Canham

Title: The Far Horizon
Series: Pirate Wolf (Dante Pirates)
Author: Marsha Canham
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 15, 2017
Publisher: Marsha Canham
ASIN: B06WRTBMR3

The Far Horizon is the fourth and final installment in the Award-Winning Pirate Wolf series. It is preceded by Across A Moonlit Sea, The Iron Rose, and The Following Sea. The series follows the Dante family through forty years of turbulent sea adventures, beginning with the patriarch fighting alongside Sir Francis Drake, and ending with Jonas Dante's pursuit of revenge.

Jonas Dante is the eldest son of Simon Dante, the infamous Pirate Wolf. While conducting business in London, Jonas meets the beautiful jewel thief, Bellanna Harper. When Dante rescues her from an attack that leaves her homeless and hunted by killers, Bella finds herself in even more peril, trapped aboard Dante's ship and carried south to the Pirate Wolf's tropical island stronghold.

Sea battles, intrigues, betrayals and heart-pounding adventure swirls around a breathtaking romance between two evenly matched, indomitable characters.


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Thursday, May 3, 2018

Review: The Following Sea by Marsha Canham

Title: The Following Sea
Series: Pirate Wolf (Dante Pirates)
Author: Marsha Canham
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: March 28, 2012
Publisher: Marsha Canham
ASIN: B007PVHRA8

This time the story focuses on Gabriel Dante, taking up where The Iron Rose left off as he sails away from battle with horrendous wounds and half a crew on board a captured ship. On his way home to the safety of Pigeon Cay, Dante crosses paths with a strange ship sailing in circles, showing no signs of life on her deserted decks. It is a plague ship, flying a yellow flag, warning all sailors to stay away.

On board the Eliza Jane, Evangeline Chandler is the only survivor of the fever that wiped out the entire crew. Eva, weak from thirst and hunger, wakens to find death screaming across the sea as a full broadside from Dante's ship explodes around her.


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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Review: The Iron Rose by Marsha Canham

Title: The Iron Rose
Series: Pirate Wolf (Dante Pirates)
Author: Marsha Canham
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: June 16, 2011
Publisher: Marsha Canham
ASIN: B0056J6RJS

After the Spanish galleon attacked the English merchant ship, Varian St. Clare was shocked to learn that the captain of the privateer who saved him was Juliet Dante, daughter of legendary Pirate Wolf...

Varian had been sent by the King to tell Juliet's father about a new peace treaty between Spain and England. Juliet agrees to bring Varian to her father—but only as her hostage. But as the attraction between Juliet and Varian builds, and as intrigue swirls, the danger of the high seas will match the danger of surrendering to desire...


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Monday, April 23, 2018

Review: Across A Moonlit Sea by Marsha Canham

Title: Across a Moonlit Sea
Series: Pirate Wolf (Dante Pirates)
Author: Marsha Canham
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: June 1, 2011
Publisher: Marsha Canham
ASIN: B0053Y1M5A

The Pirate Wolf...
He was French by birth, half English by blood, and reported to be all larceny by nature. One of Queen Elizabeth's legendary sea hawks, the rogue nobleman Simon Dante nearly lost his life when his partner turned coward and betrayed him for a king's ransom in stolen gold. Simon vowed nothing would stop him from seeking revenge...until he found himself at the sensual mercy of a lady privateer.

The Black Swan...
Beau Spence had learned the hard way how quickly men tired of their spoils. For eight years she had sailed the Caribbean with her father and not once had she met a man who caused one moment of regret for the life she had chosen...until a reckless challenge from the infamous Pirate Wolf forced her to fight back with her own powers of seduction. And when these two renegades reluctantly join forces, it is their firestorm of raging passion that sweeps them into a sea of danger and desire...


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Friday, April 20, 2018

Review: The Black Diamond by Andrea Kane

Title: The Black Diamond
Series: Black Diamond
Author: Andrea Kane
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: November 1, 1997
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0671534823
ISBN-13: 9780671534820

Aurora Huntley, free-spirited sister to the earl of Pembourne, lives under the dark shadow of the black diamond. The victim of threats from privateers who believe her brother possesses the precious stone, Aurora is a virtual prisoner in her own home. She now faces a fate worse than death: an arranged marriage to an uninspiring suitor. Craving adventure and freedom, Aurora has no choice but to do something shocking, something scandalous...

For two hundred pounds, a handsome stranger agrees to help Aurora stage her own ruin. But her kiss stuns him, and her name shocks him. She is a Huntley, and he is Julian Bencroft, the new duke of Morland. For generations their families have been bitter enemies because of the black diamond. Now, joining forces to claim the treasure, Julian and Aurora discover a love that is far more precious than any jewel. But first, they must conquer the evil that surrounds them—or surrender their newfound joy to the diamond's age-old legacy of betrayal.


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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Review: Legacy of the Diamond by Andrea Kane

Title: Legacy of the Diamond
Series: Black Diamond
Author: Andrea Kane
Read copy: Mass Market Paperback
Published: January 1, 1997
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 0671534858
ISBN-13: 9780671534851

COURTNEY JOHNSTON, the lively daughter of a sea captain, is swept underneath a wave of despair when a pirate forces her father overboard. Taken captive and used in a sinister plot to win an English nobleman's rare black diamond, she now lives to fulfill one burning desire: to avenge her father's death.

SLAYDE HUNTLEY, the earl of Pembourne, will do anything to ransom his missing sister, Aurora, even turn over the priceless gem that has been his family's treasure-and curse-for generations. Lured to the pirate ship, he believes the golden-red haired beauty promised for the stone is his sister, but she is not...she is his destiny.

Even as the diamond brings Courtney and Slayde together, it glitters with a malice and mystery that draws them toward a haunting evil. Soon they fear losing a treasure more precious than any jewel-their chance for a future together.


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