title: A Matter of Blood
author: Hinton, Michele
description: BlueInk Review
  : Historical fiction is at its best.... She has a knack for dialogue…
  High Seas: A Matter of Blood
   – This is the second book in the High Seas series. Margaret is finally going to be with the man she loves – or is she? One of the obstacles she has to deal with in her relationship with Captain Todd Withers – is her mother. Margaret is now the widow of the world renown, Alec Mitchell, who was also known as The Pepper King of India. Her mother, Clarice Wallingham, believes the Captain an unsuitable match for her daughter. However, the good Captain has a secret.
  Margaret is also custodian her stepson’s massive trust. This doesn’t set well with Drake’s uncle, Lawrence Mitchell. His desire is to control the fortune by obtaining custody of his nephew. Is he the one that is keeping Margaret from the man she loves? Or is it another?
  Follow the lives, relationships, and intrigues of Margaret and Todd, Lawrence and Olivia Mitchell, and Margaret’s son, Drake, with his two friends, Eric Mitchell and William Braxton, as their stories are intertwined with Margaret’s adventure.