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The Captain's Caress

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This book is very passionate and emotional. The sex scenes are really hot and there is alot of emotional upheaval. It is your basic kidnapping romance, the heroine Summer Ashton is forced to wed by her father. She is headed to meet her new husband when her ship is attacked by another ship. The captain of the other ship is Brent Douglas and he has a grudge against Summer's husband. He decides to get back at him through her. When he realizes she is innocent and she was forced to marry he no longer uses her as a form of revenge and they have a steamy affair, but Summer cannot forget what he did, so even though she desires him she is forever fighting him and at odds with him. This book has plenty of passion, the story is fast paced and interesting. The female character is not a complete doormat for the male, like they tend to be with these older historical romances. I recommend this book.

When I heard that Leigh was a man I was curious how a man would go about writing a good love story... Well this man truly knows what makes a very hot intense love story. This might be my first Leigh Greenwood book but it most certainly will not be my last.

Brent Douglas is a man's man, powerful, sexy, very amusing and not totally living his life for revenge, because he easily gives up his revenge when he quickly falls in love with his enemies intended wife. For Brent the Earl of Heatherstone, is the man he blames for his own ruined life in Scotland. When Brent learns the Earl's future wife is on a ship bound for Scotland he takes over that ship and captures Summer Ashton for his own.

Summer has led a fairly sheltered life up until now on the family plantation in the Caribbean. It is her father that has sold her to Gowan McConnel, the Scottish Earl so when she is now a captive of Brent Douglas she fights her feelings for him not wanting to be his prisoner. This is definitely the epitome of a woman constantly fighting the romantic feelings she has for her conqueror. The dialog between these two is very intense just as the love scenes are.

This is truly passion and conflict with a few surprise twists in the story to keep one turning the pages of a very great book. Neither of these two were just willy nilly characters. They both knew how to survive and they would both need these qualities to find and keep their love. The length of this book allows one to totally get involved in their heartfelt story. This was an excellent book, absolutely five stars. I can't wait to read more from this male romance writer!!

Summer Ashton has been sold into marriage to Gowan McConnel, a Scottish Earl that she has never met. Leaving her beloved plantation in the Caribbean, she sets sail for the colder climate of Scotland and is beset upon and kidnapped by pirates.

Brent Douglas didn't really need to plunder another ship, as his own is full to the side rails. After finding out that the ship carried the wife of the Earl of Heatherstone, the man he blames for his own ruined life in Scotland, he couldn't resist adding her as a plundered prize.

Leigh Greenwood has written a fascinating story involving pirates, the Caribbean, as well as mixing in the Scottish element - all the elements for my favorite type of historical. THE CAPTAIN'S CARESS has a few twists that caught me by surprise, and is full of action.

However, there are a few issues that I felt were unresolved or were never clarified, which I found confusing. From the very beginning, we know that the Earl somehow stole Brent's heritage, but Brent tells the Earls agent he is going to treat Summer exactly as he (Gowan) would himself. Besides (I feel) raping her via seduction, all they did was quarrel; and somehow fall in love. I found myself wondering on several occasions what he meant by that statement.

Actually, I liked the arguments between Summer and Brent. They were very refreshing and realistic. I however don't know how she could fall in love with him, because he really struck me as an overgrown child that overcompensated for one wrong by committing another. He has a good heart, and the best of intentions (most of the time) but he really did treat Summer as a captive bedmate. I will however concede that I also think he was forced to "grow up" and go rescue Summer from the Earl and therefore deal with his past at the same time, or lose the woman he has come to love.

I liked Summer as a heroine. She seemed very genuine and just as confused about falling in love with Brent as I was with her falling in love. Maybe its because he was a good person underneath the appearance of being a pirate. Regardless she was very intuitive despite living a sheltered life on a Caribbean Island. I also liked the way she stood up to him, even if the end result was she did get seduced again (Brent's solution for everything).

I would really rate THE CAPAIN'S CARESS as 3 ½ stars because I can't give it four but it deserves more than just three. The book just doesn't fall into the category of a story I couldn't put down. While I think Brent came across as an overbearing child most of the story, I would recommend THE CAPTAIN'S CARESS simply because the story was very well thought out and written and over all was an excellent pirate novel.