A Pirate's Return from the Grave …Honoria Ardmore has a secret. Four years ago, the notorious pirate Christopher Raine, arrested for stealing a ship full of gold bound for Napoleon, makes one last request of Honoria. She grants it, and Christopher is taken out to be hanged . . . Or was he?Honoria couldn't possibly have seen him come back to life in the rather thick air of Covent Garden, could she? Christopher is long dead and gone, Honoria's secret with him, and now she's betrothed to a respectable English gentleman.Captain Raine wants it all back …His sentence having been commuted at the last minute, Christopher spent the last four years working for his freedom as he crisscrossed the world. He's lost everything, his ship, his crew, his very identity. Now he's determined to retrieve it all-ship, friends, the treasure he was forced to abandon.Most of all Christopher wants Honoria Ardmore-his wife. And he'll stop at nothing to get her back. Jennifer Ashley is the New York Times bestselling author of 75 published novels and novellas in romance and mystery. She writes historical and paranormal romance as Jennifer Ashley; mysteries as Ashley Gardner; and paranormal romance and urban fantasy as Allyson James. She has been published since 2002 at Penguin / Berkley, Ellora's Cave, and now independently, and has won numerous awards for her work. See her websites for more information.
