Capture My Heart [Paperback]

Bobbi Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1992

Raised by the Barbary pirates who kidnapped him as a boy, Lord Alexander Wakefield thinks of women as objects to possess, until he meets Victoria Lynn Lawrence, the British heiress he has abducted. Original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Zebra; PF edition (August 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0821738437
• ISBN-13: 978-0821738436
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,693,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

After working as a department manager for Famous-Barr, and briefly as a clerk at a bookstore, Bobbi Smith gave up on career security and began writing. She sold her first book to Zebra in 1982.

Since then, Bobbi has written over 40 books and 6 novellas. To date, there are more than five million of her novels in print. She has been awarded the prestigious Romantic Times Storyteller of the Year Award and two Career Achievement Awards. Her books have appeared on numerous bestseller lists.

When she's not working on her novels, she is frequently a guest speaker for writer's groups. Bobbi is mother of two sons and resides in St. Charles, Missouri with her husband and three dogs.

Romantic Times Storyteller of the Year

NY Times Bestseller

USA Today Bestseller

Inducted into the Sigma Tau Delta Literary Fraternity

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 2 mediocre books in 1, March 21, 2009

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This review is from: Capture My Heart (Zebra Historical Romance) (Paperback)

This book would have made more sense as 2 seperate books in a series. Only the last 40% of the book is actually really about the story that is described on the back cover.

If you like over-confident, domineering men who keep their women in harems and do not think they should be allowed to think for themselves, then you will like this book.

As part of his parents' plot to make money, a young English boy, Alex, and his Aunt Catherine are kidnapped and put in a ship that is over taken by pirates. They end up in Algiers where the dey decides to keep Catherine in his harem and raise Alex as his son. Catherine tries to escape with Alex and get back to England, but fails.

18 years later Alex, now known as Serad, has grown up to be a pirate and a man just like the dey, much to his aunt's distress. He raids a ship and finds a young woman on board. And, as history repeats itself, he takes her to Algiers and sticks her in his harem. The difference is that Catherine can't watch another woman face the same fate as her, so she helps the girl escape back to England. Everyone meets up in England, love is found, and everyone ends up happy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 3 Romances for the Price of 1, November 19, 2008

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D. Florack "book addict" (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Capture My Heart (Zebra Historical Romance) (Paperback)

Everybody gets a happy ending. I thought it was well-written. Kind-of nice that all the loose ends get wrapped up in the end - maybe a little bit improbable. I wish the villains had suffered more. Someone as evil as Vivienne deserved a page or two with details about her comeuppance. I thought the heroine (Tori) could have been a little more likeable. It was a fast read.

1.0 out of 5 stars Never judge a book by its blurb, July 27, 2011

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NEB - See all my reviews

This review is from: Capture My Heart (Zebra Historical Romance) (Paperback)

Why do romance novels have to be so full of cliche? I love a good romance (Especially if pirates are involved!), but it's always the writing that lets them down. Too many corny lines and overused descriptions. The editor of this book needed a sharper eye - at one point all of Tori and Jonesy's clothes are removed so Tori has to don a 'native' dress, yet on the next page Tori is back in the dress she's borrowed from Jonesy! I know I'm fussy, but it's these kind of things that throw me out of a story. I confess to skim reading parts of the book too ... The blurb led me to want to read about Serad-Alex and Tori's relationship, but Tori didn't even appear in the book until p195! I understand that all the backstory about Alex, Catherine et all was necessary, and I'll admit I enjoyed the Malik/Catherine romance, but I think the blurb miss-sold the book. Had I been told it was an 'epic' spanning twenty-odd years and involving more than one romance, I'd have been more ready to settle in for the duration. Having said all that, I liked the characters, the over-all epicness and the romance elements. The baddies weren't all bad and the goodies weren't all good. The plot wasn't bad either - just convoluted enough to intrigue, although I confess to having the ending all figured out fairly early on as the twists were signposted rather obviously.