Beloved Captive: Fairweather Keys Series #2 (Truly Yours Romance Club #28) [Paperback]

Kathleen Y'Barbo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2008

In this sequel to Beloved Castaway, Emilie Gayarre is learning to accept her mixed race heritage while finding fulfillment in teaching children of the key. There is no denying the attraction between Emilie and the handsome young naval commander, Caleb Spencer, who is shadowed by his own flock of secrets. But if her heritage is found out, even greater things than his career are at risk. Enjoy this historical romance full of risk and redemption.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

School teacher Emilie Gayarre comes to grips with her newfound mixed race heritage and finds love with Caleb Spencer, the young naval commander and former privateer who could lose more than just his position in the Navy if Emilie’s lineage—and his past—is discovered.

From the Back Cover

Risk, Romance, and Redemption in the Florida Keys

 

Emilie Gayarre grew up in luxury but left it all to help save two of her friends. Shipwrecked in Fairweather Key, Emilie has made a new life for herself as a schoolteacher. But now she has been called home to New Orleans and her father’s deathbed only to learn the life she was raised to enjoy was all a lie. A stigma attached to her birth could steal any hope for a happy future.

 

Caleb Spencer is dogged by a shadowy past. Raised the son of a prominent Florida politician and a pirate princess, he has tried to forget his maternal grandfather’s means of wealth until called home to the Caribbean and his inheritance of longstanding rivalry.

 

Caleb must a zeal for revenge if he ever wants to build a successful career in the law. Meeting and falling in love with Emilie only adds to his angst.

 

Can Emilie and Caleb let go of the ashes of the past and make a new life under a clean banner of faith?

 

 

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Kathleen Y’Barbo is an award-winning novelist who lives near Houston, Texas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1602602301
• ISBN-13: 978-1602602304
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,466,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

RITA and Carol Award nominated author Kathleen Y'Barbo first discovered her love of books at the age of four when she stumbled upon Granny Simpson's World Book Encyclopedias. Letters became words, and words became stories of far-away places and interesting people. Eventually, she hit the road for real, earning a BBA from Texas A&M's Mays School of Business before setting off to such locales as Jakarta, Tokyo, Bali, Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore.

More than one million copies of her bestselling books are in print, and her books have been translated into several languages including German and Dutch. Her 40th novel releases June 21, 2011.

Find out more about Kathleen by visiting her website at www.kathleenybarbo.com

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't flow as smoothly as the first book in the series, December 20, 2008

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Michelle Sutton (Arizona) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beloved Captive: Fairweather Keys Series #2 (Truly Yours Romance Club #28) (Paperback)

If it had, I would've rated it higher. It took me quite a while to finish this book. Unlike Beloved Castaway, this story had some slow spots and less action. It started out strong and even made me cringe in a few places, but I always like it when characters are stuck in situations they can't control. But I never got the same sense of peril in this story as I did in the first book. I enjoyed seeing some of the same characters from the previous book, but it did drag a bit and the ending seemed kind of choppy to me. There was also less romance than in the first book. I loved the part where they were both on that island and when the hero named her Miss Crusoe. I also loved how the author had a twist from what you'd expect every now and then. Overall, it was a decent read. I hate to compare books but it is part of a series, so it's hard not to do that. I look forward to the third book in the series.

3.0 out of 5 stars It's still just OK, June 13, 2010

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♥OnMySleeve (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beloved Captive: Fairweather Keys, Book 2 (Truly Yours Romance Club #28) (Paperback)

I'd previously read Beloved Castaway before reading Beloved Captive -- and I didn't think too highly about the first one. I decided to give Captive a chance anyways since I still had the characters fresh in my mind.

And I still say this series is just OK. I've read better.

I personally favored this storyline more than the first, but I still had problems favoring the author's writing style and character development. It wasn't easy for me to truly "get into it" until the last few chapters.

Then again, if that's the kind of series you're after -- something that's hard to truly get into so that it doesn't keep you up at night turning page after page -- then this should work just fine.

4.0 out of 5 stars A Predictable, But Enjoyable Christian Romantic Adventure, March 21, 2009

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Stacey (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beloved Captive: Fairweather Keys Series #2 (Truly Yours Romance Club #28) (Paperback)

Kathleen Y'Barbo has penned another entertaining seafaring adventure with her novel "Beloved Captive". In this sequel to "Beloved Castaway", and second in the Fairweather Key series, the story of Isabelle's sister, Emilie, is told. From her trip to visit their father in the hopes of procuring a donation to keep her school in Fairweather Key open, to her adventurous trip on the high seas including being captured by pirates and meeting her one true love, this lively tale in truly enjoyable. This novel can easily be read as a standalone story, but it would be more enjoyable if you've already read "Beloved Castaway" and are familiar with the characters.

"Beloved Captive" has moments where it is a bit far-fetched as well as other moments that are very predictable. But these elements do not detract from the enjoyability of the story if you are able to simply take the book as an entertaining read. I found myself glad that I was correct about my assumptions of where certain twists and turns were headed. I will recommend this book and look for future projects by this author - like the third in the series, "Beloved Counterfeit".