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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* 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