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A shipload of women - theirs for the taking! Pirate captain Gideon Horn couldn't be more delighted. His men are tired of wandering the high seas and want to settle down with wives on the uncharted island paradise they've discovered. And the women are bound to be grateful to be rescued from the life of drudgery awaiting them in New South Wales. Married? To pirates? Sara Willis couldn't be more appalled. First she demands proper courting - at least a month. The darkly handsome pirate lord gives them two weeks. Then Sara insists the men vacate their huts for the women - Gideon demands her kisses in return. As the demands heat up, so do their passions - and soon Sara can't remember just why she's fighting the devilishly seductive captain so hard...
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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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Sexy pirates need women to help colonise a paradise island. So they come up with a fail proof plan. They save a boat load of convict women going to New South Wales. Before you think convict women may I point out that most of the women had hardly done anything to warrant their punishment. Anyway back to the story. Gideon Horn the pirate lord sexy handsome and might I say persistant in his belief that the women should be grateful to him for saving them decided on the one for him.The one being Sara Willis a reformer and a stepsister to an Earl back in England.The only fly in the ointment was the fact that non of the women where grateful they all wanted to get on to the drudgery and slavery in New South Wales. Can you believe it. Well neither could I so I stayed up half the night to read about the pirates who changed the womens minds. It was a good lighthearted read. With romance adventure and a touch of senual tention between the two main characters. Gideons love at the end knew no bounds as he struggled to overcome the obsticles put in his way before true love conquered all. Doesn't it always, but not always as well written as Sabrina Jeffries.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Well at last a strong female who wont let just anyman walk all over her...After going aboard a ship full with women and children she hepls the fallen to rise she teaches them words and numbers,hoping to give them a better chance in the next part of there life..Until one day a pirate ship kidnapps them all and after being taken to a deserted island they are told they will marry the pirates of course sara was having none of it trying to tell gideon that not only were some to old but some already had husbands at home.Could he win her heart or would he let her go you will have to read to see
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This is a reissue of a book first published in 1998 and it was a good, swashbuckling story. Miss Sara Willis is a reforming young woman who causes endless headaches for her stepbrother, the Earl of Blackmore. Her latest scheme is to travel on a convict ship full of women to make note of the conditions, give them some education and to try to ensure their safety when landing in the antipodes. She manages to persuade her stepbrother to allow her on the ship but he makes sure one of the crew is going to look after her.
However no-one expects the ship to be boarded by pirates and the women to be kidnapped. Captain Gideon Horne, known as the Pirate Lord, has a hatred of the English aristocracy and has plundered many ships belonging to nobles. However he and his pirate crew want to settle down on the island paradise they have found - but not without women. When they discover the convict ship full of women it is too good an opportunity to miss!
But Gideon hasn't reckoned with Sara Willis and her care for the women. Sara and Gideon are locked into a battle of wills as she tries to protect the women and he tries to encourage them to live the utopian life on his island, Atlantis. But Gideon and Sara might be getting more than they bargained for when they spend so much time together - can Gideon's distrust of the aristocracy and the wounds of childhood be overcome? Can Sara find happiness so far from her life in England?
This was an enjoyable story if rather far-fetched (I can't imagine any brother would have allowed his sister to be a passenger on a convict ship, for example). The characters were interesting although many seemed rather stereotypical, but the central love story worked quite well and the verbal sparring between Sara and Gideon was well written. The revelations about Gideon's past were perhaps rather too convenient for this story but overall it was a good read and I enjoyed it.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
However no-one expects the ship to be boarded by pirates and the women to be kidnapped. Captain Gideon Horne, known as the Pirate Lord, has a hatred of the English aristocracy and has plundered many ships belonging to nobles. However he and his pirate crew want to settle down on the island paradise they have found - but not without women. When they discover the convict ship full of women it is too good an opportunity to miss!
But Gideon hasn't reckoned with Sara Willis and her care for the women. Sara and Gideon are locked into a battle of wills as she tries to protect the women and he tries to encourage them to live the utopian life on his island, Atlantis. But Gideon and Sara might be getting more than they bargained for when they spend so much time together - can Gideon's distrust of the aristocracy and the wounds of childhood be overcome? Can Sara find happiness so far from her life in England?
This was an enjoyable story if rather far-fetched (I can't imagine any brother would have allowed his sister to be a passenger on a convict ship, for example). The characters were interesting although many seemed rather stereotypical, but the central love story worked quite well and the verbal sparring between Sara and Gideon was well written. The revelations about Gideon's past were perhaps rather too convenient for this story but overall it was a good read and I enjoyed it.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
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