Until I Return — Laura Simon

She had the pride of Nantucket in her spirit and the passion for one man in her blood.

ONE MAN. ONE WOMAN. A LEGACY OF COURAGE.

Bleak yet beautiful, severe yet serene, wide cobbled streets filled with brawny seamen and Yankee merchants, nineteenth-century Nantucket was a port like no other. The island women saw their brave men sail off for years on end in pursuit of the gigantic wales, while they stayed behind with fatherless children, lonely thoughts and worries.

For China Joy, whose love of the sea and adventure sparked fire in her exotic gray eyes, whaling was a bloody, brutal business. It had sent her family one by one to a watery grave, and now stood between her and the only man she could ever love. Determined to push him from her mind -- but unable to push him from her heart -- she struggled with her own emotions. With strength and valor she forged a destiny as proud as her Nantucket heritage.