Heart of the Storm: A High Seas Romance

What's a lady to do when an honorable pirate steals all she owns including her heart? Win the game, of course. When the newly-made pirate Lord Jack Winston proposes a partnership to survive the onslaught of British warships and to seek out lost treasure, Emma counters with a contract of her own. This one may break all the social mores but will claim the biggest prize of all.

In the mid 1700's aboard a British merchant ship, Lord Jack Winston and his co-conspirator, are about to steal the dowry of a young woman and pirate her father's ship in the name of retribution. Lady Emma Aston, the innocent prey, is en route to Williamsburg via Halifax for her wedding attended by her maid, consumptive aunt, and fiancé but only after she discovers her fiancé’s poisoned body, does she realize the plot hatched against her. 

A Woman in a Storm

Lady Emma Aston soon learns the truth of her late berothed as well of her father's plan to use her as a pawn to win the fortune's of another family. But it is the truth of Jack Winston himself that shatters her and rebuilds her anew. He is everything she could ever dream of in a man only plunged into the body of a traitor, thief, and pirate. To love him is to bring the wrath of the law upon her head. How many rules will she break to claim her own prize?

A Man in a Maelstrom

Jack Winston is the youngest son of an earl and now, after the death of his familty, the destitute only son. He has no intention of becoming a pirate but his anger burns too deep not to cross the lines. And then he meets Emma. What should be so easy now becomes heart-wrenching, and that she refuses to accept the obvious, more wrenching still..

Will they wrest the storm within and without, or both will go down with the ship, dragging everything they hold dear down with them?