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Lady Vixen
538 pages
A sweeping, tempestuous voyage of high-seas captivity and feverish, undeniable passion.
What it feels like
Reading this vintage romance is like stepping into a tempest of high-stakes adventure and feverish emotion. The narrative moves at a brisk, breathless clip, sweeping the reader from aristocratic drawing rooms to the salt-sprayed decks of pirate ships and the opulent hideaways of the Caribbean. It is unapologetically melodramatic, drenched in the lush, purple-tinged prose characteristic of classic bodice rippers, where every glance is a battle and every touch is a conflagration. The mood is stormy and passionate, built on the friction of a fiery, combative dynamic between captor and captive. It delights readers who crave the sweeping, unbridled intensity of old-school historical romance, offering a turbulent emotional journey from fierce defiance to an all-consuming, inevitable surrender.
- Mood
- stormy
- adventurous
- feverish
- opulent
- Tone
- breathless
- melodramatic
- earnest
- sweeping
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- loss of innocence · enemies to lovers · overwhelming passion · high-seas adventure · captive romance
- The writing
- Lush, purple-tinged, and highly emotive, filled with breathless declarations and vivid descriptions of tempestuous encounters.
- The arc
- Moves from defiant resistance and perilous captivity to an all-consuming, undeniable surrender to love.
- Who it's for
- Fans of vintage, unapologetically dramatic bodice rippers who crave high-stakes adventure mixed with fiery, combative romance.
Content notes
- dubious consent
- kidnapping and captivity
- explicit sexual content
- period-typical sexism
- violence
About the book
Beautiful, headstrong Nicole Ashford, 18, was yet untouched by passion, but destined for adventure - and pleasure - beyond anything a woman of her time had ever known.
Outwitting a ruthless plot against her, she fled her aristocratic England home on a privateer's ship bound for the luxurious pirate havens of New Orleans - and exquisite abandon in Bermuda's hidden coves. Yet the very daring of her escape plunged her into even graver peril as captive mistress to notorious high seas outlaw, 29 year old Captain Saber, whose savage passion made her a woman, but whose tender kisses plundered her soul.
And nothing now could stop what was begun between them - nothing could still the urgent fires of the love they were born to share!
Description from Open Library.
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