Horizons: Horizons East / Rhum Bay

by Andrea K. Stein

"Horizons" contains two novella sequels to the full-length novels, "Fortune's Horizon" and "Secret Harbor." In "Horizons East," it's 1868, and Captain Jack Roberts has moved on to serve as a commander in the Turkish Navy. But now he's gone missing, and Lillie has dragooned his younger brother, Miles, into guarding their son and nanny while she searches for Jack among the Turkish islands. On leave from military service in India, Miles gets claustrophobic at the thought of going undercover with the precocious three-year-old and the boy's way-too-beautiful nanny who loathes him. “Rhum Bay” continues the adventures of the Blanchards from “Secret Harbor” and is set about nineteen years later, in 1778. Jean and Marie’s daughter Honore is now a handful, prone to fits of temper, so they’ve put her to work in the family business. When she runs afoul of a dark, brooding young man with designs on their shipping business, she discovers he is Alexandre, the illegitimate son of Antoine Courbet, murderer and despoiler of women, who nearly ripped the Blanchard family apart. Raised by his grandfather, another force in shipping on Martinique, Alex is determined to succeed in spite of his dark background. Honore’s answer to his meddling proves she is indeed her father’s daughter. But is Alex his father’s son?

222 pages, Paperback

Published August 9, 2016

About the author

Andrea K. Stein is a native Ohioan, the daughter of a trucker and an artist. She grew up a scribbler. The stories just spilled out--the pony escaped, the window magically shattered. Not her fault.

Twenty years as a journalist couldn't stifle the yarns. Yacht delivery up and down the Caribbean only increased the flow. Now those tales celebrate romance and adventure on the high seas.