Gentle Reader,

As you might imagine, the drawing rooms of Key West, Florida, make quite the effort to compare with those of genteel civility, such as Savannah, Philadelphia or Boston. Our young ladies are brought up to display the most decorous of behavior. That is, of course, until those of lesser class broach the best thresholds, and then what may we expect, but scandal?

Miss M, daughter of a codfish aristocracy businessman, recently–and inexplicably–became engaged to local society swain TW.  Until a few weeks before, he had been most intently courting a young lady of proper breeding, Miss P.  I can assure you that more than a few jaws dropped, and a dozen young ladies’ hopes were dashed at his most public announcement of the sudden engagement. But the worst was yet to come.

At the party to celebrate the engagement Saturday last, the most shocking event occurred. The young woman was abducted by pirates! Right from under her fiancé’s nose! We are told that she returned home the same night. One can only imagine in what condition she arrived, considering the scoundrels who stole her away. The young man was overheard loudly demanding that she be examined to see what sinful harm had befallen her during her absence, and her father seemed quite beside himself, his already-questionable family name being exposed to such shameful behavior.

One may hope that such shenanigans will bring the young man to his senses, and that he may, with all proper decorum and certainly legal right, breach his promise to marry this unfortunate girl. Certainly, his parents should encourage such a course of action immediately.

About the book: Tamsyn McKiernan thinks her dreams have come true. She’s engaged to a dashing Key West bachelor and finally in her widowed father’s good graces. But in her heart, she knows something’s wrong. She loves the ocean and the quiet pleasures of nature—so what does the aristocratic life she’ll lead truly hold for her?

Mercenary captain Drake Ashton is neck deep in preparations for the Spanish-American War, running guns and other supplies to Cuban natives who want out from under their Spanish masters. He and his brother Freddie risk their lives daily, focused on saving his friends on the island. Nothing else matters but his mission.

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About the Author: Alana Lorens has been a published writer for more than forty years, after working as a pizza maker, a floral designer, a journalist and a family law attorney. Currently a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, the aging hippie loves her time in the smoky blue mountains. She writes romance and suspense as Alana Lorens, and sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal mystery as Lyndi Alexander. She lives with her daughter on the autism spectrum, who is the youngest of her seven children, and she is ruled by three crotchety old cats, and six kittens of various ages.

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