Miss Prudence and the Freebooter – Paperback

Prudence Ledger is twenty-five, plain, exact and in charge of thirty-eight young brides bound for the far end of the world. She has thirty-one rules for the conduct of ladies at sea, a notebook, a pair of steel spectacles and a ship’s agent who is courteous, grey-gloved and entirely too kind.

Then a black brig runs up beside them in the Bay of Biscay, and a tall, quiet man in a dark coat comes aboard to demand one passenger by name. He straightens a crooked picture while he waits. He is Captain Sebastian Rook, a freebooter with a letter of marque, a broken nose and nine years of memory. He says that nobody will be harmed. He does not say what he will do to the man he is looking for.

A harp with a hollow string. A pair of gloves that fit too well. A crossing-the-Line frolic that goes terribly wrong, and a black island with four hundred goats, a cave, a fire that will not light and a Rule that Prudence has never written before. When the brides take their own ship with a ladle, a Bible and the Old Hundredth sung at the top of their voices, she will learn what a list is worth when somebody else is holding the pencil. And she will have to decide whether being useful is the same as being wanted.

A swoon-worthy Regency adventure of danger, honour and a very clean, very hot kind of love.