Triumphant Hearts

In her heart, Rebecca Bradford is no longer the orphaned white daughter of a wealthy Maryland planter; she is Star Blanket, a bold young woman with no need for fancy clothes or manners, and no understanding of the 'honor' that prohibits Adam Rourke from acting upon the desire raging in his dark eyes. Once a bondservant, Adam Rourke promised Rebecca's grandfather he would keep her safe until she assumed her role, and the fortune that was promised him. But Rebecca wishes to return to her adopted Shawnee, unable to become the person she no longer is. Granting Rebecca her freedom, guarantees Adam his fortune. But letting her go will cost him his heart.

As Charity Brown glides down the grand staircase of Maryland's finest estate, no one suspects she is an escaped prisoner of the Crown, sentenced to 30 years slave labor. Charity's plan: secure her new-found identity and her future with a good marriage. Then Jamie Drummond arrives. Masquerading as a dissolute son of an English lord, Jamie is a smuggler on the run who can offer Charity nothing... except a passion that sets her ablaze. Surrendering to desire could send them both to the gallows. But rolling fate's dice and shedding their masquerades may well earn a bounty far greater than either imagined, if it does not first burn their hopes to ashes.

In a time when women are seen and not heard, Ashley Morgan fights prejudice, nature, pirates, and the British Empire to hold on to her Maryland plantation, and her independence. And if success requires she hire a male overseer to ship her crops to England, she will find one willing to work for a woman. Brought to America as a bondservant, Scotsman Kelt Saxon has fought his way to freedom. Obtaining a position as plantation overseer was beyond expectation. Answering to a woman seems beyond possibility, especially a beautiful woman who has already stolen his heart, while refusing to surrender her own.

Lady Kathryn Storm assumes the role of highwayman to save her father from the noose. But her attempt is interrupted by Lord Pride Ashton. Now Kathryn is standing on the gallows, when her death sentence is commuted to thirty years slave labor in the Maryland colony, thanks to Pride's intervention and promise to escort her to America. Kathryn is livid. Pride is looking forward to the journey. Neither expects to be swept into a maelstrom of bloodshed and beauty, where each must risk everything for the ultimate love.