I'm a huge fan of Robards and so I had to read this one with a handsome sea captain hero.
Set in 1792, this tells of Delilah Remy from the British
island of Barbados who visits her great aunt in Virginia with the hopes of
finding a suitor she actually wants (having previously turned down two dozen
proposals and not being very thrilled with her father’s choice). One night she
encounters Joss San Pietro, the first man she’s ever been attracted to. He’s
tall, dark and terribly handsome and much more mature than the fops who she’s
been exposed to and better that the oh-so-dull man her father would see her
marry on Barbados where they have a plantation. But the night they meet, Lilah
and Joss learn a terrible secret about him that means they can never be
together: Joss is not entirely white.
Robards deals well with a sensitive issue at a time when
England had no slaves but America did. Joss is an educated businessman, a
merchant sea captain with his own ships, but the one drop of African blood in
his veins rules him out as a suitor and throws him into slavery. On the ship
voyage south to Barbados, where Joss accompanies Lilah as a slave, they will be
shipwrecked on a tropical island for months where none of the rules apply.
Robards tells a great tale with wonderful characters and a
deep romance that defies the rules of the day. It kept me turning pages.
Buy on Amazon.
Buy on Amazon.
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