Kydd
Subtitle: the admiral's daughter
By: by Julian Stockwin
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780750528986
Subjects: Impressment; Thomas Kydd (Fictitious character); Seafaring life; Fiction; History
Description: 1803. Commander Kydd is about to discover that the most dangerous waters can be the closest to home. Tensions are escalating again between England and France. While the Royal Navy launches reconnaissance and rescue missions on the continent, French privateer ships are lurking off the English coast, poised to strike at British trade. As the men of HMS Teazer fight to gain control of the seas around Cornwall and Devon, her captain is diverted by a beautiful and determined admiral's daughter who could be the key to realising all Kydd's ambitions and dreams of love - but high society can be as treacherous as the sea ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007.