H.r. Donovan

Destiny H.r. Donovan

In this romance set in the 1770s, newly orphaned Sarah Blackstone and the pirate captain, Drake, must join forces to rescue her young brother from the hands of his abductors. A promise made Eighteen-year-old Sarah Blackstone and her younger brother, Tobias, have been raised by their widowed father on a plantation in Virginia. To protect a family secret, Sarah has sworn to remain unmarried and care for Toby and the family fortune upon her father's death. The promise, made as a child, becomes an unbearable burden when uncontrollable desires are awakened in the young woman by the dashing pirate captain, Drake.An innocence lostAs a boy, Drake was raised as Jake Durant, heir to a vast plantation in Virginia. One night strangers invaded his home and murdered his parents, and he barely escaped. Now a grown man, Drake lives only for revenge until a red-haired beauty named Sarah shows him the way home.Their destiny discovered Sarah's father's untimely death and the abduction of her brother ignites a race for his rescue that takes her from the confines of a lunatic hospital in London to a pirate hideaway in the Caribbean, back to her plantation home, and into the arms of the man she's come to love.