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Lord James Gresham, the fifth son of the Duke of Langford, serves as a captain in the Royal Navy despite having already built a fortune on his own. With no clear future in sight, he contemplates settling down as a proper English wife. The sea, however, continues to tug at his adventurous heart. His plans are thrown into chaos when Kawena Benson, a half‑English, half‑Polynesian woman, arrives seeking revenge for her father’s death and the retrieval of a cache of stolen jewels. Forced to protest his innocence and join her quest, James finds his world overturned, forced to confront both his duty and his desires.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Jane Ashford
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