Review: ROMANCE & ADVENTURE ON THE HIGH SEAS
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
Regan Walker is a master at creating a nineteenth century heroine with the independent nature that often goes against the mind set of her times and embroiling her in chaos and romance with a man she can't stand. How much fun is that? A lot, which is why I recommend reading Wind Raven, the third novel in Walker's trilogy, Agents of the Crown. Get all cozy with your favorite beverage and settle in for an intimate adventure with Jean Nicholas Powell, (Nick), a tall, dark, handsome privateer who sails his schooner with a pirate's panache. His world is challenged when he encounters Tara McConnell, a well born, young, beautiful woman Nick finds irresistible in spite of his distrust of women and her hatred of Englishmen. Not only is he English, his attitude toward women of bed them, don't trust them and avoid marrying one creates havoc for both Tara and Nick.When circumstances force her to book passage from England and travel unchaperoned on Nick's ship to return to her ailing father in America, tempers flare and sparks fly over her insisting on dressing like a man and using her skills as a sailor which she learned from growing up as the motherless daughter of a shipping merchant who taught her along with her older brothers to be sailors. A man of his time, Nick intends to keep her in the galley where a woman belongs. When pirates capture Nick's ship and abduct Tara, Wind Raven is transformed from a page turner to a stay up all night and find out how it ends read.Walker continues to present her readers with intriguing plots, fabulous characters and meticulously researched, authentic, historical backgrounds.