A Pirate's Pleasure [Hardcover]

Heather Graham (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Dell Bantam Doubleday; Book Club (BCE/BOMC) edition (1989)
• ASIN: B001YUK1X6
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,584,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Heather Graham was born somewhere in Europe and kidnapped by gypsies when she was a small child. She went on to join the Romanian circus as a trapeze artist and lion tamer. When the circus came to South Florida, she stayed, discovering that she preferred to be a shark and gator trainer.

Not really.

Heather is the child of Scottish and Irish immigrants who met and married in Chicago, and moved to South Florida, where she has spent her life. (She has, at least, been to the Russian circus in Moscow, where she wished she was one of the incredibly talented and coordinated trapeze artists.) She majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred and fifty novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, horror, and Christmas family fare.

She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty-five languages, and has had over seventy-five million books in print. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, the Lifetime Achievement Award from RWA and more. Heather has also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Heather has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight and local television.

Heather loves travel and anything that has to do with the water, and is a certified scuba diver. She also loves ballroom dancing. Each year she hosts the Vampire Ball and Dinner theater at the RT convention raising money for the Pediatric Aids Society and in 2006 she hosted the first Writers for New Orleans Workshop to benefit the stricken Gulf region. She is also the founder of "The Slush Pile Players", presenting something that's almost like entertainment for various conferences and benefits. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swashbucking at its best!!, June 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Pirate's Pleasure (Mass Market Paperback)

Move over Errol Flynn! This is swashbucking at its best. If you're a reader whom can feel being present during the scenes in the book, and if you enjoy sword fights, battles on the sea, then you'll enjoy 'A Pirate's Pleasure'. Although not a constant thrill, when the fights did occur, I found myself sitting on the edge of, whatever I was sitting on, turning the pages to see the outcome of the altercation. The characters were enjoyable. Once you resigned yourself to get past the wigs, powdered hair, buckled shoes (I find it hard to call a man handsome with buckled shoes and powdered wigs), you thoroughly enjoyed the characters and came to love the rogues of the novel, Lord Cameron and Captain Hawk. Skye Kinsdale Cameron was forever reaking havoc either on land and on sea and forever leading both she and her male companions on perilous life threatening edge of your seat escapades. In the words of Captain Hawk, 'she was trouble'. And their love was stronger and more tumultuous than any hurricane on the ocean, or any tornado on land. In response to the reviewer from Utah, whom suggested reading 'Pagan and Pirate', she's right, the 'Pagan and Pirate' is an outstanding novel (one of my favorites), however, I didn't compare the two. I loved both. 'A Pirate's Pleasure' was non stop swashbucking, reckless behavior, and edge of your seat escape scenes, whereas, 'Pagan and the Pirate' was sensuous and deadly intensive. I suggest you read both, and enjoy both authors and enjoy their unique styles of writing characters that we either love or hate and always remember.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!, February 6, 2003

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April (Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Pirate's Pleasure (Mass Market Paperback)

This is one of my all-time favorite books! If you want to escape reality and be swept away for a little while, this is the book. Although, "Skye" can be a little "dim-witted" at times, it will get your blood moving.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read!!, February 9, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: A Pirate's Pleasure (Mass Market Paperback)

One of the few romance novels that has any substance. The characters are real and the writting takes you into the world of pirates and the pleasures they desire. If you want a tame lame read keep looking, but if you want an adventure filled with lust and passion buy it now, you won't regret it!