Looking for a Hero [Mass Market Paperback]

Patti Berg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1998

Pretty Kate Cameron was looking for a man to sweep her off her feet, but she never expected him to be wielding a cutlass and claiming to be the infamous Morgan "Black Heart" Farrell, a pirate captain who lived nearly three hundred years before. Danger may have followed him from the past, but he's not about to leave while Kate needs him.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Berg's (If I Can't Have You) time-travel romance takes readers from the high seas of 1702 to present-day St. Augustine. As pirate Black Heart clashes swords with his nemesis, Thomas Low, a broken mast throws him overboard and onto a Florida beach in 1998. In the ruins of what was once his island hideaway, the buff buccaneer spies widow Kate Cameron and her cute daughter, Casey, who loves to tell pirate stories. Black Heart (ne Morgan Farrell) is really a sweetie under his black eye patch; he longs for a wife and kids, just as Kate longs to have more children. A little too dull-witted to make a decent heroine, Kate fights the standard losing battle between head and heart, along with other body parts; Morgan doesn't particularly want to go back to a lonely 18th-century ship, even if staying means not taking his vengeance against Low. Fortunately, Low has also time-traveled to St. Augustine, and the pair finishes the duel. Readers will be thankful for this continued fight, for here Berg has created a twosome more exciting than Morgan and Kate.
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About the Author

Always a romatic, Patti Berg spent her childhood dreaming about being whisked away by a knight in shining armor, a devil-may-care swashbuckler, a sheik on a shiny black stallion, or a broad-shouldered cowboy with a Stetson tilted low on his brow. Now she spends her days making up stories in which her heroes do whatever she wants them to. It's almost as good as a dream coming true, she confesses.

Currently working on her next book for Avon Books, Patti hopes she'll have a long career sharing her dreams and fantasies with others.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Avon (December 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380795558
• ISBN-13: 978-0380795550
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,612,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A different but delightful amnesiac romance, October 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Looking for a Hero (Mass Market Paperback)

As the storm punishes his ship, Satan's Revenge, Morgan "Blackheart the Pirate" Farrell expects to die. However, Morgan can't find respite in the storm because his vile enemy Thomas Low has escaped from below. The pair duel and Morgan is winning when lightning strikes his sword and eventually Morgan falls over aboard.

When he regains consciousness, Morgan finds himself on the beach of his retreat island just off of Florida. To his shock a woman Kate Cameron and her child Casey are also there. His own centuries-old hut stands in ruins. Morgan learns that somehow he has been propelled into the future. As he beings to love the widow and her six year old daughter, Morgan finds out that his old enemy has joined him the future.

Readers LOOKING FOR A HERO need only read Patti Berg's latest time travel tale to find a genuine candidate. Morgan is a passionate, understanding person, who struggles with the evil that destroyed his family even as he wants to start anew with the Cameron females. Kate is a kissable person, whose loneliness makes her vulnerable and thus under the pirate's protection. The time travel story line is well written, though readers will have to leap as far Morgan and Thomas did to accept the premise. Still a great story that will thrill the most romantic of time traveler fans.

Harriet Klausner

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time travel romance starring a pirate, October 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Looking for a Hero (Mass Market Paperback)

As the storm punishes his ship, Satan's Revenge, Morgan "Blackheart the Pirate" Farrell expects to die. However, Morgan can't find respite in the storm because his vile enemy Thomas Low has escaped from below. The pair duel and Morgan is winning when lightning strikes his sword and eventually Morgan falls over aboard.

When he regains consciousness, Morgan finds himself on the beach of his retreat island just off of Florida. To his shock a woman Kate Cameron and her child Casey are also there. His own centuries-old hut stands in ruins. Morgan learns that somehow he has been propelled into the future. As he beings to love the widow and her six year old daughter, Morgan finds out that his old enemy has joined him the future.

Readers LOOKING FOR A HERO need only read Patti Berg's latest time travel tale to find a genuine candidate. Morgan is a passionate, understanding person, who struggles with the evil that destroyed his family even as he wants to start anew with the Cameron females. Kate is a kissable person, whose loneliness makes her vulnerable and thus under the pirate's protection. The time travel story line is well written, though readers will have to leap as far Morgan and Thomas did to accept the premise. Still a great story that will thrill the most romantic of time traveler fans.

Harriet Klausner

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cute escapism, despite the annoying pirate-speak, June 13, 2005

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This review is from: Looking for a Hero (Mass Market Paperback)

Kate and Casey Cameron are stranded on a private island when a storm washes their sailboat to shore. It manages to wash someone else to shore: a pirate (complete with scars and eye patch) who travels nearly 300 years in the future. Despite her reservations, she brings Morgan "Black Heart" Farrell back to St. Augustine and lets him stay with her (all the while thinking he has a screw loose).

"Looking for a Hero" is a funny fish out of water story about a man dumfounded at what has become of the world since he last set sail, determined to return to where he belongs to seek vengeance on the pirate that destroyed his life. Of course the Kate and Morgan fall for each other, but it is an interesting journey, fraught with a lot of pirate-speak almost to the point of annoying.

When his mysterious ship settles on the shore, and a series of murders occur, Kate has to question whether he is sane or not, and could he possibly be the culprit?

Will they succumb to their feelings, and more importantly, will they part or attempt to live in the other's world? Breezy escapist story.