title: Her Passionate Pirate
author: Hart, Neesa
description: What do a plain-Jane professor and a handsome swashbuckler have in common? A passion that defies all the odds...
  
  Dear Diary,
  
  Women dream of a handsome man walking into their lives, but it usually doesn't happen. Well, it happened to me today! Swarthy ocean archaeologist Rafael Adriano with his eye patch and alpha-male arrogance is a modern-day pirate come to life.
  
  With my rambunctious nieces visiting for the summer, I have enough problems without Rafael endeavoring to conduct research in my home for clues leading to some historical shipwreck, the Isabela. I can't believe he offered to play nanny in exchange for access to the house -- or that I agreed.
  
  If only he'd stop looking at me as if he knows my deepest desires.
  
  Cora