Pirate's Prize

by Lena Nelson Dooley

Angelina de la Fuente Delgado, the pampered daughter of a wealthy merchant, is on her way home from a trip to Spain when her ship is attacked by pirates. The brigands capture her and her aunt and steal all the merchandise on the ship. After forcing most of the crew to walk the plank, they sink the vessel into the Atlantic. Brian O'Doule, who is secretly in love with Angelina, is also kidnapped by the pirates. Driven by feelings of guilt for not preventing the disaster, he does everything in his power to protect the women and to find a way for them all to escape. Will Angelina ever see her home and her beloved father again? Or will she be forced to marry the fierce pirate captain, Etienne Badeau? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

Genres: Christian Fiction

176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 2005

Reviews

[Peggy Freeman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lena Nelson Dooley is an excellent writer. The Pirate's Prize is a good read for a rainy day.

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was ok, I like the characters ok,

[Jeanette · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a Christians based historical romance book.

[Brenda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good read, different from those I'd been reading lately so it held my interest. It does have a christian theme that repeats itself throughout the story, for some that would be a distraction from the story itself, I don't mind it.

It's a small little novel under 200 pages, a Heartsong Presents book.

From the back of the book I'm cheating because I've been sick and have burned through a couple of books without remembering everything and putting it here before picking up the next:

Is there any way to escape from a pirate ship?

Angelina de la Fuente Delgado, the pampered daughter of a wealthy merchant, is on he rway home from a trip to Spain when her ship is attacked by pirates. The brigands capture her and her aunt and steal all of the merchandise on the ship. After forcing most of the crew to walk the plank, they sink the vessel into the Atlantic.
Brian O'Doule, who is secretly in love with Angelina, is also kidnapped by the pirates. Driven by feelings of guilt for not preventing the disaster, he does everything in his power to protect the women and to find a way for them all to excape.
Will Angeline ever see her home and her beloved father again? Or will she be forced to marry the fierce pirate captain, Etienne Badeau?

Note: The book could have been expanded a bit to tell of the journey the fellow Brian went on to get help. It may have lent more interest to the final part of the story, but again, I'm sure the author had to keep the book within a certain number of pages in order to meet editors requirements for the book. They do have page restrictions etc., from my understanding which explains why some books are wrapped up rather fast and finished. This one did wrap up all the ends wrather well without telling the ending, you know what happened to everyone by the end of the story.

[Alexia · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am not even sure i finished it. I like historical romances that are not smut, but have a nice story to them. This.. this was not well written. It had a Christian theme through out the story which could have been a great thing, except it was to repetitive and therefore the story became redundant and boring. I barely skimmed through it, curious enough about the story but not curious enough to really read it.

[Siera · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ha ha ... it was as cheesy as it looks, but also very entertaining. "Just seeing him brought my heart comfort, and it hummed in a melodic recognition of the love I was beginning to feel for him." I don't think that line specifically was in there, but that's about how the whole novel was. Obviously, however, I'm the one who read it beginning to end.