Christmas Wedding Belles: The Pirate's Kiss / A Smuggler's Tale / The Sailor's Bride

Christmas Wedding Belles: The Pirate's Kiss / A Smuggler's Tale / The Sailor's Bride
Miranda Jarrett

Margaret McPhee

Nicola Cornick

Regency.The Pirate's Kiss by Nicola Cornick Famous and feared pirate Daniel de Lancey is master and commander of the Defiance. Only one woman makes him want to swap danger for desire, sea for seduction… And with one Christmas kiss, he will make Lucinda his bride!A Smuggler's Tale by Margaret McPheeMasquerading as a smuggler, society's handsome bad boy, Lord Jack Holberton, finds himself protecting young Miss Linden's honor, despite his reputation. But will this rake keep his twelfth-night promise and return to claim her as his own?The Sailor's Bride by Miranda JarrettWar-ravaged Lieutenant Lord James Richardson is about to put in to Naples after a victorious sea battle that has made him a hero but has left its mark on his soul. Young and innocent, Abigail Layton is just the woman to heal his hardened heart…

CHRISTMASWedding Belles

NICOLA CORNICK

MARGARET MCPHEE

MIRANDA JARRETT

CONTENTS

THE PIRATE’S KISS

Nicola Cornick

Author Note

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

A SMUGGLER’S TALE

Margaret McPhee

Author Note

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

THE SAILOR’S BRIDE

Miranda Jarrett

Author Note

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

THE PIRATE’S KISS

Nicola Cornick

Author Note

From the time that I first started reading—and loving—romance novels, books with pirate heroes have been amongst my very favorites. Georgette Heyer’s Beauvallet possessed all the heroic qualities I most admire—courage, daring, integrity and honor. The mysterious Frenchman in Daphne du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek and the dashing Rory Frost in M. M. Kaye’s Trade Wind ran off with my heart. I owe all of those writers a huge debt for the inspiration and enjoyment that they have given me over the years.

A couple of years ago, when I was researching my family tree, I discovered that two of my husband’s ancestors had been smugglers and pirates in Dorset at the end of the eighteenth century. Escaping from the authorities, they were last heard of in the Bahamas!

The lure of the pirate hero is a difficult one to resist—what could be more appealing than a man who lives outside the law and yet has his own code of honor and courage? In The Pirate’s Kiss* (#litres_trial_promo) Daniel had loved and lost Lucy years before. Now they meet again and find that the attraction between them has never died. But can they find love again, or is it too late?

This story is dedicated to all the readers who wrote to me after they had read The Rake’s Mistress, asking for Daniel de Lancey to have a story of his own. Here it is—just for you.

Nicola

Chapter 1

Suffolk, England, November 1808