Margaret
04-27-2009, 08:46 PM
I got an inquiry recently through HistoricalNovels.info from a reader looking for a novel she really enjoyed, but she can't remember the title or author. Here's her description:
Female orphaned passenger on a ship, and a privateer/pirate captain imprisoned below. She is extremely shy and can't communicate well (autistic?). He is bound for trial and a noose. She is standing in front of his tiny prison window, and takes off her shoes because her feet hurt. He swipes them, and forces her promise to bring him extra food and talk to him. They become friends.
A typhoon/monsoon is coming. Heroes crew overtakes them during the storm, and free their captain. The captain of the passenger/transport ship refuses to listen to their advice, so the privateers offer the passengers a chance to escape with them, as its clear their all going to die where they are. The heroine won't go, so her new 'friend' kidnaps her, and her ship roommates trust their instincts and decide to go as well.
They make it as far as a deserted island, before the pirate/privateer ship sinks, stranding them all. Hero and heroine fall in love, but he is too dominant and runs over her all the time. First chance she gets off the island, she abandons him. Later she finds out she's pregnant, and marries a gay doctor who needs a wife to protect his reputation.
Hero comes after her when he finds out about the baby, forces an annulment, takes her and the gay doctor (his practice was ruined in england i think) back with him. America, I guess? He doesn't forgive her though, for a long time.
Hero has a saint bernard named Beau.
Does this ring any bells for anyone? She said she read it during the 1980s.
Female orphaned passenger on a ship, and a privateer/pirate captain imprisoned below. She is extremely shy and can't communicate well (autistic?). He is bound for trial and a noose. She is standing in front of his tiny prison window, and takes off her shoes because her feet hurt. He swipes them, and forces her promise to bring him extra food and talk to him. They become friends.
A typhoon/monsoon is coming. Heroes crew overtakes them during the storm, and free their captain. The captain of the passenger/transport ship refuses to listen to their advice, so the privateers offer the passengers a chance to escape with them, as its clear their all going to die where they are. The heroine won't go, so her new 'friend' kidnaps her, and her ship roommates trust their instincts and decide to go as well.
They make it as far as a deserted island, before the pirate/privateer ship sinks, stranding them all. Hero and heroine fall in love, but he is too dominant and runs over her all the time. First chance she gets off the island, she abandons him. Later she finds out she's pregnant, and marries a gay doctor who needs a wife to protect his reputation.
Hero comes after her when he finds out about the baby, forces an annulment, takes her and the gay doctor (his practice was ruined in england i think) back with him. America, I guess? He doesn't forgive her though, for a long time.
Hero has a saint bernard named Beau.
Does this ring any bells for anyone? She said she read it during the 1980s.