Savage Embrace — Jessica Howard

She was a vicar's daughter -- beautiful, innocent, alone -- among lust men battling for gold, land and power!

Vanessa-who journeyed to London with her blind father. She was nineteen, and beautiful, and ready for a bright future. Then, thieves attacked her carriage; and before the night was through, Vanessa was an orphan-battered, homeless and penniless.

Captain Brian Cameron rescued her, but he did not believe her story, nor could he guess at her strength and courage. She could help the Palatine settlers on their voyage to the new world, battle the pirates who ravished her, survive in the forest and shine like a queen at an elegant ball. All Cameron knew was that he, like every man who looked at her, was engulfed by desire, longing to hold her in a Savage Embrace...