Barbarous (The Outcasts)
In this Regency romance, a one-eyed pirate, the bare-chested Creole first mate, a monkey, and a parrot land on the recently widowed Lady Daphne Davenport’s front lawn in England. The one-eyed captain is not just a piece of chiseled man-flesh; he is the previously assumed dead nephew of Lady Daphne’s husband, the baron Lord Ramsey, back from the sea to protect his uncle’s widow from threats of violence. But wait, there’s more: Lady Daphne’s twin boys are not the issue of the late Duke of Davenport but were accepted by the duke in order to deprive another man from inheriting.
Barbarous is a fun to read confection. The bookish young widow with a blushing problem must remain stern and in control in the face of her handsome and roguish piratical nephew, and the pirate must keep his lusty hands to himself. After all, even an aunt and nephew by-marriage cannot wed under Anglican ecclesiastical law. This is the second in the series.
