Captain Black

by Caroline Martin

Duty had surrounded Deborah Halsey since infancy. It had been the motivating force of her Puritan upbringing, the principle that had guided her rigidly strict parents in molding their child.Now Deborah had grown into a dutiful but lonely young woman — with an arranged marriage and a whole host of new duties ahead of her.Suddenly, on an impulse stronger than any she had ever known, stronger even than her sense of duty, Deborah rebelled.

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 1980

Reviews

[Kagama-the Literaturevixen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Set some years after

Deborah is a young orphaned woman who lives with her dour puritan aunt and uncle.They have already betrothed her to a distant relative Edward Biddulph as to keep her fortune in the family.

One evening after traveling home by coach from a visit to her fiancee she and her maid Nan are set upon by the highwayman who calls himself Captain Black.Deborah is taken captive and held for ransom

I cant say the romance as its called held my attention or even made Believe it was anything else than an onesided infatuation from Deborahs side.That is best case scenario as some might even call it Stockholm syndrome

Actually for the most part they are not even in Contact wich makes their reunion and proclaiming their love seem utter ridicilous.

[Lynn Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Number 60 in this historical series.
Set during the time of Oliver Cromwell's rule after the end of the English Civil War. It is a story about a previously dutiful Puritan heroine who rebels against her situation.