title: Silver Dreams
author: Chaikin, Linda / Chaikin, Linda Lee
description: "I'll resist the marriage", Devora thinks stubbornly as her ship heads toward the West Indies and a dreadful new life. Promised to the powerful Don Nicklas Valentin, a man whose ruthlessness is legendary, Devora fears a union with this man she's never met. And her heart holds memories of Captain Bruce Hawkins, the dating English buccaneer with the mysterious past. Devora remembers her vow to assist the noble captain in stopping the cruel treatment of the silver mine laborers, and attempts to plot her own escape. And when Don Nicklas arrives to claim his bride, she finds herself searching for freedom in a new way.