Forever Paradise By Miranda North
Forever paradise historical fiction series
SHE HAD TO ESCAPE HER PAST Marriage Exquisite Lydia Collins had had enough of it for a disastrous two months and she swore she d never wed again Seeking only some peace from all men the now rich widow went abroad to see her late husband s lands in Jamaica and sailed straight into the arms of a tanned half nude sailor who knew nothing of courtesy and manners First the brute manhandled her then he publicly ridiculed her but when he kissed her Lydia was furiousuntil the wine of ecstasy washed through her veins and made her unreasonably yearn for rude caresses at the hands of the handsome ruffian HE HAD TO PURSUE HIS FORTUNE Coal haired Blake Spencer could tell right away that shapely fashionably dressed Lydia Collins was a troublemaker Even though he d been her husband s hardworking overseer and had earned the Collins plantation home Blake could detect the proprietary gleam in the greedy wench s eye Determined to make her abandon her claim the unabashed male calculated first he d seduce her then humiliate her But Blake never figured he d really desire the interfering British beauty or that he d crave her creamy flesh and yearn to make her the fiery tempestuous mistress of their own private Forever Paradise
Miranda North lives in the Chicago area After ten years of working as a feature writer and editor for business magazines she took a sabbatical to fulfill her lifelong dream of writing a romance novel and was thrilled when Zebra published that first book Desert Slave She has a degree in anthropology and is now able to combine her interest in writing and in the study of man in a single career writing historical romances.