The Captain's Wife

1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her
marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp
salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella
away from the land of her childhood towards unseen places and an unknown
future. But being the captain s wife is going to be harder than she
thought. Her husband is still grieving for his first wife, and Mary can't
ignore her feelings towards another man onboard. Through him, she has a
taste of the kind of love she might have known, and even begins to think
that escape is possible.With ruthless pirates patrolling British waters and
ports full of outcasts with unspoken pasts, Mary learns quickly that
loyalties are always shifting and people are rarely as they first seem. The
Captain's Wife is a richly realised story of adventure about a strong young
woman determined to survive her fate by a wonderful storyteller.