Laurie McBain's passion for art and history, nurtured by her father, led her to write her first historical romance. Her early novels achieved phenomenal success, selling over a million copies each and establishing her as a pioneer of a new style in romantic fiction. Though her career was brief, she retired in 1985 after writing seven romances, leaving a distinctive mark on the genre.
Fortune smiled on Dante Leighton, titled lord turned pirate. Sailing before the Sea Dragon's towering masts, he plundered hearts and cargoes from the Carolinas to Trinidad's turquoise lagoons. But one treasure always eluded him .... Until, a world away, at the English country estate of Lucien and Sabrina Dominick, a series of dazzling intrigues results in the abduction of their golden-haired daughter, Rhea .... And now, in a gathering wave of turbulent emotion, the fates of Rhea and Dante converge unforgettably -- in a quest for sunken Spanish treasure ... and a love worth a thousand fortunes.
"The plot has imaginative twists and turns, and the backgrounds are lush and evocative. It's good, satisfying fun." -Publishers Weekly She's one thing by day, something else altogether by night... After escaping the slaughter of her clan at a young age, Scottish noblewoman Sabrina Verrick provides for her siblings by living a double life, until the night sheencounters the Duke, and her secret and all she holds dear is threatened... He's so disillusioned, he's completely vulnerable... With his inheritance at stake, Lucien, Duke of Camareigh, sets a trap for the Scottish beauty with the piercing violet eyes, never imagining what will happen when the trap is sprung... As their lives become irreversibly entangled, Lucien and Sabrina become each other's biggest threat, as well as their only salvation... Praise for Laurie McBain: "Ms. McBain's flare for the romantic intermingled with suspense will keep the reader riveted to the story until the last page." -Affaire de Coeur "Vivid sense of description, colorful characters... I found myself happily lost in the magnificence of the storytelling." -Los Angeles Herald Examiner Dominick Trilogy: Moonstruck Madness Chance the Winds of Fortune Dark Before the Rising Storm
Die bezaubernde junge Leigh Alexandra Travers fühlt sich auf der Plantage ihrer Familie in Virginia wunschlos glücklich - bis sie Neil Braedon trifft. Der junge Neil wurde als Kind von den Komantschen geraubt und zum jungen Krieger erzogen, bis er als Halbwüchsiger von seiner Familie endlich befreit werden konnte. Doch auch nach seiner Rückkehr in die Zivilisation hat er sein ungebärdiges Verhalten nie ganz abgelegt, und nun zieht es in den Wilden Westen, wo er in der ungezähmten Wildnis sein Glück machen will. Nichts und niemand kann ihn aufhalten - außer Leigh. Denn sie denkt gar nicht daran, ihre Heimat in den Südstaaten zu verlassen...
