Captain's Bride [Paperback]

Kat Martin (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Start with a comely, courageous but none too bright heroine, add a hero whose machismo occasionally veers toward sadism, toss in sheer stupidity as a catalyst and you've got Martin's ( Dueling Hearts ) latest romance set in the 1840s. Master of a South Carolina plantation, Julian Summerfield has sent Nathan, his illegitimate son by one of his slaves, to be educated in the North. But when Julian dies suddenly, his embittered widow forces the young man into slavery. Glory, Julian's legitimate white daughter, decides to help her half-brother escape to the North, talking her way onto a merchant ship owned by her father's friend, Nicholas Blackwell. Shipwrecked during a storm, Glory and Nicholas are stranded alone on an island, and the captain, tired of her Southern belle ways, decides to trim her sails: "He'd hate to bed her against her will, but . . . she deserved whatever she got." Unable to resist such charm, Glory finds herself seduced and abandoned; although eventually rescued from the island by Nicholas's crew, she is left to face life as an unwed mother and social outcast--until Nicholas learns the truth of her situation and realizes there's more to Glory than mere beauty.
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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Diamond Books (August 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557733821
• ISBN-13: 978-1557733825
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #907,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Currently living in Missoula, Montana, Kat Martin is the bestselling author of over fifty Historical and Contemporary Romance novels. Before she started writing in 1985, Kat was a real estate broker. During that time, she met her husband, Larry Jay Martin, also an author. Kat is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she majored in Anthropology and also studied History. "I love anything old," Kat says. "I love to travel and especially like to visit the places where my books are set. My husband and I often stay in out-of-the-way inns and houses built in times past. It's fun and it gives a wonderful sense of a by-gone era."

To date, Kat has over twelve million copies of her books in print. She is published in twenty foreign countries, including Germany, Norway, Sweden, China, Korea, Bulgaria, Russia, England, South Africa, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Japan and Greece.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Sub-Par Hackneyed Romance, June 2, 2003

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Jana L. Perskie "ceruleana" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Captain's Bride (Paperback)

I usually write reviews only for books I like, but I feel obligated to warn readers away from this disappointing novel.

A beautiful Southern Belle meets her father's Ship Captain friend. Obviously the Captain is handsome, capable of charm, a rogue with a horrible reputation...& also much younger than her father. Daughter & friend are attracted to each other, but he thinks she is spoiled. When she proves that she is more than eye candy, (but not much more), he distances from her because he doesn't want to seduce his friend's daughter...nor does he want to get married. Commitment is so hard. Then the Belle & the Captain bicker a lot. Most of the book is about their bickering & misunderstandings. This constant arguing, (nothing interesting - no repartee here), does not build sexual tension...it just builds boredom.

Anyway, due to unfortunate, (but not original), circumstances, the Belle runs away from home with her half-brother, who is part Negro slave. They seek refuge on the Captain's ship. She lies about the reasons they have run away. More bickering...then a shipwreck...a desert island, a seduction & a hold on bickering for awhile. However, the sex is less interesting than the bickering. Then a rescue, a major misunderstanding that leads Sir Captain to rape Ms. Belle & behave sadistically for about 100 pages. I had to stop reading after this. I will say that no matter what this rude, boorish man does, he never completely alienates the Belle - which says a lot about her IQ & emotional stability.

I love a good, sexy romance & can certainly get into some alpha male, dominant behavior - but please do not bore me with formulaic plots & dialogue & super shallow characters. Kat Martin loses with this one. Thumbs down!

7 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was a compelling romance, May 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Captain's Bride (Paperback)

This is a truly unique novel by Kat Martin. If you ever get your hands on it (as it is out of print), GET IT. You won't be sorry.