I loved that it was completely believable, yet exciting enough to make your heart skip a beat or a sigh to rise up. This book on the other hand was refreshing. I absolutely adored this book! I read a lot and often get tired by predictable plots or over-dramatized turns of events. But as they draw ever closer to their destination, will the impossibility of their circumstances shatter any hope of a future together? Amelia and William are ceaselessly thrown together, and amidst fierce storms and ocean battles, what began as antipathy seems to be evolving quite unexpectedly. He is determined to return this duplicitous "Lady" to London for an official hearing, and he carries with him a letter that will ensure her cooperation.Left with no choice, Amelia joins the captain on his return voyage to England, and the two quickly find that ship life does not allow for evasion.
If he cannot prove that Amelia's marriage to his brother was a fraud, she will be entitled to a sizeable portion of his family's estate. But with the arrival of Captain Sir William Drake, her plans quickly go awry.William has traversed the Atlantic with one purpose. Heiress to her mother's sugar plantation in Jamaica, she happily anticipates working in a man's world, with the additional credibility of her new title: Lady Lockwood. Married by proxy to a man she'd never met, Amelia recognizes that a fortuitous entry into widowhood frees her from meddlesome chaperones and matchmakers. Amelia Beckett is delighted to be a widow.
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