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I’m so excited to be given the chance to be part of the Mills & Boon Undone! Ebook launch! Not only do I get to try a whole new (new to me, anyway!) format, I get to revisit a setting and a group of characters I love. High Seas Stowaway, coming soon from Mills & Boon Historical, is the story of Balthazar Grattiano, a ship’s captain sailing the treasure-laden waters of the Caribbean in 1535, and Bianca Simonetti, the owner of a tavern in the Spanish island town of Santo Domingo. They share a secret past—but it’s the present that proves even more dangerous! Love, passion, peril—all with white sand beaches, turquoise waters, and warm sun. Of course I wanted to go back there!

One of the characters we meet in High Seas Stowaway is Carlos de Alameda, a handsome, mysterious Spanish nobleman. I wanted to know more about him, about his story—and about the kind of woman who could uncover all that delicious inscrutability. I think I found her in Maria, a woman with plenty of mysteries of her own. I hope you enjoy their tale, too!

The history of the early Spanish Caribbean is a fascinating one. I had so much fun researching these two stories (and touring recreations of Renaissance ships!). A few interesting sources are: Kenneth Andrews’ The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder; CH Haring’s The Spanish Empire in America; Carl Sauer’s The Early Spanish Main; Marcus Rediker’s Villains of All Nations; and Wayne Curtis’s And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. (Because, as anyone who has seen Pirates of the Caribbean can attest, what’s the Caribbean without some rum? And some sexy pirates!)

Shipwrecked and Seduced

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