The eighth novel in Johanna's widly popular Malory family series. Charming rogue Drew Anderson finally meets his match when James Malory introduces the daughter of his old pirate friend to London society.
When eighteen-year-old Gabrielle Brook's mother dies, she sets sail from England for the Caribbean island where she believes her estrangled father lives. En route she is captured by pirates and held hostage. But the biggest suprise of her life occurs when she is ransomed by a pirate who turns out to be her father! After spending three glorious years with her unconventional father, Gabrielle is dismayed when he informs her she must return to London to find a proper husband. There, his old friend, former gentleman pirate James Malory, will sponser her in society.
While Gabrielle is beautiful, educated and has no social graces, she has no real desire to enter London's social whirl and let a bunch of popinjays romance her. But James Malory's wife George persists in making Gabrielle accompany her and her brother Drew Anderson, an American sea captain, who's visiting London, to balls and parties.
Drew, a fun-loving rogue who has a sweetheart in every port, is drawn to Gabrielle's beauty and spirit but he wants nothing to do with a young woman who's hunting for a husband. When he unintentionally ruins her in the eyes of the ton, she is forced to extreme measures to show him the error of his ways...
