For those of you who read and loved McBain’s Moonstruck Madness, as I did, this is the
next book in the Dominick trilogy. The first was set in England and this one
begins there but soon takes off for America and the Caribbean. You should read
all three, as they comprise one story. This one begins the romance of Dante and
Rhea, which concludes in book 3. The original story was a bodice ripper (I have
the original). I don’t know if they changed the new edition.
Set in 1769, this is the story of Dante Leighton, captain of
the Sea Dragon and Marquis of Jacqobi
who is hoping a buried treasure will return him the wealth he needs for revenge
against the man who took from him Merdraco, his family estate in England, and
Rhea Dominick, the beautiful and sweet oldest child of Sabrina and Lucien, Duchess
and Duke of Camareigh, who we met in the first book. Rhea is now seventeen and
the object of revenge by the Duke’s cousin. Abducted and sent aboard a ship to
the Colonies, Rhea escapes one man’s evil plans for another’s.
McBain weaves many threads together for an exciting tale of
betrayal, revenge and love wrapped around a hunt for a sunken treasure ship.
Actually it is a very long but very absorbing introduction to the third novel, Dark Before The Rising Sun. I could not
put it down and so appreciated McBain’s command of the English language and her
attention to vivid detail. It is superbly written.
You will soon be lost in the world of Dante’s ship the Sea Dragon and feel Rhea’s intense longing
to return home to Camareigh even as her desire grows for the brooding ship’s
captain. Rhea is a courageous, unselfish heroine with a fondness for God’s
creatures and those in need of help. Dante is a self-absorbed aristocrat turned
hardened American privateer and smuggler who is not beyond taking a duke’s
daughter.
I promise you will love it but get the next one for the end
of the story!
The Dominick
trilogy:
·
Moonstruck
Madness (1977)
Sabrina and Lucien
·
Chance The
Winds Of Fortune (1980)
their daughter, Rhea and Dante
·
Dark Before
The Rising Sun (1982) Rhea
and Dante (cont’d.)
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