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Captive Innocent
Forced into indentured servitude after learning that her American fiance had died, penniless Rebecca Ranserford travels unescorted to the New World and becomes prey to lascivious Captain Quint McQuade, who assumes she is a rejected mistress
1 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1989
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About the author
Allison Knight
27 books12 followersIn junior high she decided she wanted to write, so in seventh grade she wrote poetry. In eighth grade she started writing prose; in high school, short stories, in college, she authored a newspaper column. After college, she continued to write. While teaching Home Economics, she even started a cookbook. Her husband claims it was a good thing it never saw the light of day.
When she started teaching, she met and fell in love with her very own hero. They married and started a family. As her children grew, she entertained them with stories, some real and some not so real. When she found a spare minute or two, she read. She still continued to teach and more than once her classroom, full of inquiring minds, had a teacher who'd had very little sleep the night before because she'd read into the wee hours of the morning. (She claims she has no self-discipline when it came to a good book!)
After she discovered historical romance, and found things missing in the current book she was reading, she decided she had to write her own romance. Full of enthusiasm, she pulled out her portable typewriter, (computers were not yet a common household item), a package of paper and began- - -
THE GREAT AMERICAN ROMANCE!
Her daughter asked what she was doing.
"I'm writing a book," Allison said.
"Oh yea, Mom! When cows fly!!!!"
When her first book sold, she came home from her teaching assignment to find a stuffed cow, with added wings sailing around the family room tied to the ceiling fan. Of course she had to dedicate the book to her children exhorting them to look up!
Today Allison has seventeen romances to her credit and she is busy working on more historical romances, including a good old-fashion gothic. She speaks at conferences, and delights in sharing her love of the romance genre with anyone interested in talking about books.
When she started teaching, she met and fell in love with her very own hero. They married and started a family. As her children grew, she entertained them with stories, some real and some not so real. When she found a spare minute or two, she read. She still continued to teach and more than once her classroom, full of inquiring minds, had a teacher who'd had very little sleep the night before because she'd read into the wee hours of the morning. (She claims she has no self-discipline when it came to a good book!)
After she discovered historical romance, and found things missing in the current book she was reading, she decided she had to write her own romance. Full of enthusiasm, she pulled out her portable typewriter, (computers were not yet a common household item), a package of paper and began- - -
THE GREAT AMERICAN ROMANCE!
Her daughter asked what she was doing.
"I'm writing a book," Allison said.
"Oh yea, Mom! When cows fly!!!!"
When her first book sold, she came home from her teaching assignment to find a stuffed cow, with added wings sailing around the family room tied to the ceiling fan. Of course she had to dedicate the book to her children exhorting them to look up!
Today Allison has seventeen romances to her credit and she is busy working on more historical romances, including a good old-fashion gothic. She speaks at conferences, and delights in sharing her love of the romance genre with anyone interested in talking about books.
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June 17, 2012--"he guessed right away that she was a rejected mistress being banished from the colonies."
"McQuade ignored her protests and heeded his needs — only to be shocked by the truth when it was too late."
Oh lawd, how many times has THAT happened? :E
"McQuade ignored her protests and heeded his needs — only to be shocked by the truth when it was too late."
Oh lawd, how many times has THAT happened? :E
July 28, 2025
There was no chemistry.
Hh are on a ship for month. They both are passengers. She is enroute to marry a man chosen by her evil loser brother. He is enroute to meet his sick mother. Nothing happens much except some stolen kisses by hero. H thinks h is someone’s leftover mistress. When the ship lands he goes to his business. The h is stuck in the ship as her fiance is now dead and she indebted to the ship’s captain as he was to be paid by her fiancé. He tells her to sail back but she doesn’t want that as she knows her evil brother will sell her again. She instead wants take a job as governess here. The ship captain asks help of the H to decide what to do. H buys the h as indenture servant.
The book is dull. I like my heroes alpha and fighting for the h. The H here was boring. He didn’t have to fight for the h. She not even seem to be that interested. Plus there’s the family drama of the hero with his evil sisters and inheritance.
I’m done.
Hh are on a ship for month. They both are passengers. She is enroute to marry a man chosen by her evil loser brother. He is enroute to meet his sick mother. Nothing happens much except some stolen kisses by hero. H thinks h is someone’s leftover mistress. When the ship lands he goes to his business. The h is stuck in the ship as her fiance is now dead and she indebted to the ship’s captain as he was to be paid by her fiancé. He tells her to sail back but she doesn’t want that as she knows her evil brother will sell her again. She instead wants take a job as governess here. The ship captain asks help of the H to decide what to do. H buys the h as indenture servant.
The book is dull. I like my heroes alpha and fighting for the h. The H here was boring. He didn’t have to fight for the h. She not even seem to be that interested. Plus there’s the family drama of the hero with his evil sisters and inheritance.
I’m done.
March 27, 2008
This book marks the end of my foray into romance books. 6 in 6 days is more than my fill. I started noticing plot holes and repetitive writing, just weird crappy writing. The historical parts suck me in and the romance is appealling, but man my brain needs a breakie.
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