title: The Lieutenant's Woman
author: Madden, Sandra
description: In the aftermath of the Civil War, the men of the United States Navy must put aside divided loyalties as the Naval Academy returns to Annapolis--and one officer must lay to rest the ghosts of his past before he can embrace the passion the future holds...
  
  Stormy Weather
  Lieutenant Trace Reardon is a man torn. Determined to prove his worth at the academy, he is thwarted at every turn by a rival instructor. And life at home is little better; with the faithless mother of his four rambunctious children gone, Trace needs a wife. But before he can even think of courting, he must hire a governess--a task that should be easy. But pretty, spirited Susannah Partridge will prove him wrong.
  
  Safe Harbor
  
  Susannah has no way of knowing that her fresh charm is a balm to the spirit of this war-hardened officer, and that her sunny nature has tempted Trace to open his wary heart once more. Yet Susannah has secrets of her own--secrets that might make her handsome employer wonder whether he can trust her. Then, when Susannah's life is threatened, she realizes that Trace will stop at nothing to protect her--and to make her his own...