Breaking Ties — Jo Grafford

When the nobleman Rose Payne is secretly courting offers to make her his mistress instead of his wife, she is devastated. Desperate for a fresh start, she signs up as a clerk on a risky colonial venture and flees to the New World. On the way, she and her fellow colonists become entangled in a deadly conspiracy that threatens their plans to build the first English city on the continent.

Not knowing who she can trust among her countrymen, the fiery-haired clerk turns to their only Native ally for help -- a tall, stoic, and exotically handsome shipmate, who is heading home after a diplomatic tour in London. A man of few words, Chief Manteo has been dubbed a heathen and a savage by the English nobility; but to her, he is fiercely protective and admiring.

As the web of lies and danger closes around them, Rose will be forced to confront the biggest risk of all -- the one to her heart!

The Lost Colony Series is an epic historical romance saga, based on the Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island.

LOST COLONY SERIES 

Book #1 -- Breaking Ties
Book #2 -- Trail of Crosses
Book #3 -- Into the Mainland
Book #4 -- Higher Tides