Destiny and Desire

1812-1814 Shortly after Christa Devereax arrived in London to visit her aunt and uncle, the United States declared war on Great Britain. Although most of the fighting is along the Canadian border, the Royal Navy is attempting to cripple commerce by blockading the American coast. On top of this pirates and privateers roam the waters of the golf of Mexico and the Caribbean making travel very dangerous, but Christa still just wants to go home. Handsome American Privateer Shane Coulter is bold enough to ignore the danger and run the blockade with smuggled goods and mail to deliver. When he comes with letters from her father, she is determined to go home with him. He agrees with her uncle that it's to dangerous. Christa knew there would be trouble when she defied all objections and managed to get aboard Shane's ship, but she didn't expect it to come from her own dangerous desire for the handsome rogue. Destiny and Desire lead them from a moonlit beach in Jamaica to a masked ball in New Orleans and a wild chase on the Natchez trace.