Tempest of the Heart — Nancy Moulton

SWEET ECSTASY
Desperately clutching the comforter to cover her nakedness, Aislinn Whitaker gasps as she stares at the dark-haired stranger who shares her bed. Yet as memory returns and she recalls the violent secret that caused her to fee her native Delaware, she willingly clings to the warmth of his embrace. But the peace she finds in the arms of the rugged Captain Chase McKendrick quickly explodes in a blaze of passion--new, wondrous... and frightening in its exquisite pleasure.

As war rages between a fledgling nation and the British Empire, Aislinn is separated from her handsome sea captain and swept into terrifying danger Yet her will to survive is fired by the burning memory of ecstasy sweeter than anything in life. Nothing will keep her from the arms of the man whose all-consuming love has become her life.