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A new Super Regency. When Miss Lydia Peartree's afternoon cruise turns into a disaster at sea, she has only the scruffy captain to count on. But when he turns out to be a disguised-and handsome-spy, a smitten Lydia wonders if she made too fast a judgment...
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August 14, 2004: Lydia's just getting away for an afternoon cruise. Captain Frobisher is just taking on a passenger with his crew of boys. What they embark on is something far more adventuresome! Nancy Bulter has brought two new characters together in a beautiful romance - love, danger, adventure, and more love fill the pages.
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March 24, 2004: Lydia Peartree, daughter of a princess, is a composed, capable young woman and used to a comfortable life. Twenty-seven years old and having never fallen in love, she decided to marry her good friend, Donald. Her betrothed had the misfortune to catch measles when she came to visit his family. So a good friend arranges a day trip on Captain Frobisher's sleek black ship, while she kicks her heels waiting for her fianc? to get well. The chance for a nice afternoon on the river beckons her and the trip changes her life! Although she sails her little boat on the lake back home, it cannot compare with the sea. She is thrilled by the fury of the sea when a squall blows up, sending the Captain, Lydia, and a crew of adolescent boys to the coast of France. The Captain and Lydia find a connection neither was looking for. The story takes a dangerous turn when some of the travelers are recognized even in the tiny coastal French town. This wonderful Regency romance, set far from London and its drawing rooms, includes spies, power hungry villains and the shifting political atmosphere in France near the end of the Bonapartist rule. Nancy Butler has included a peek into the irresistible passion and developing intimacy between two adults who feared they would never find love.