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Frenchman's Creek
Classic historical romance
Frenchman's Creek
Bored by Restoration court life and an empty marriage, Lady Dona St. Columb retreats with her children to her husband's remote Cornish estate. There she encounters Jean-Benoit Aubéry, a cultivated French pirate whose freedom awakens desires she has suppressed beneath fashionable recklessness. Dona joins his adventures along the coast, but the return of her husband and the danger closing around the pirate make escape from ordinary life impossible to sustain. Romantic and atmospheric, this novel suits readers who enjoy secret coves, daring heroines, morally complicated adventure, and love stories shaped as much by freedom as by possession.
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Romantic themes and kissing
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