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The Captain's conquest
SHE SOUGHT AN ESCAPE When the captain of the Prim Rose told her she could risk capture by pirates or take her chances in the lifeboat with the other female passengers, Madeleine O'Neil abandoned ship. By the time an American privateer rescued the bedraggled survivors, she was beyond caring that her companions were very disreputable ladies, indeed. It never occurred to the innocent beauty that the handsome captain of the Chesapeake would assume she shared their illicit vocation. So she was shocked when he took her in his steely embrace, stunned when he covered her flesh with intoxicating kisses... and scandalized to find herself craving more of his rapturous loving! HE SOUGHT HER SURRENDER Joshua Whitlock liked his women to join him in bed because they desired him--not because they expected payment for services rendered. But thoughts of the green-eyed strumpet he’d pulled from the sea would not leave his restless mind. He summoned her to his cabin, determined to have her and forget her. But once he’d tasted the tender sweetness of her lips, caressed the silken softness of her tempting curves, he knew he wanted her beside him for a lifetime of passion, as THE CAPTAIN’S CONQUEST