title: A Lad's Trousers
author: Infante, Alie
description: A Different Side of Historical Romance Series
  Historical Interracial Romance
  Mulatto Woman/ White Male
  Zalanthea's a runaway slave, but not by choice.
  While emptying chamber pots she's attacked by a Union Soldier, and in the process of defending herself she kills him accidentally; so she steals the town drunk's clothes to disguise herself as a boy.
  Thinking her a lad First Mate Wooldridge offers her a job on board ship, because the boy looks as if he hasn't eaten in days.
  Zayla believes he's the Captain and follows him aboard the large ship.
  But she's surprised when Wooldridge delivers her to the captain, and she realizes just why he's been dubbed the name Stone.
   The piercing gray eyes say all he doesn't...
  