After one night of passion with enigmatic riverboat captain Marcus Armstrong, Jennifer Lee discovers that she is pregnant and is banished from her home, but destiny interferes when she encounters her lover again and realizes that he will stop at nothing to win her love. Original.
With several million books in print and New York Times and USA Today's bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA Patricia Rice writes emotionally-charged contemporary and historical romances which have won numerous awards, including the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice and Career Achievement Awards.
Her books have also been honored as Romance Writers of America RITA® finalists in the historical, regency and contemporary categories.
A firm believer in happily-ever-after for good reason, Patricia Rice is married to her high school sweetheart and has two children. A native of Kentucky and New York, a past resident of North Carolina and Missouri, she currently resides in Southern California, and now does accounting only for herself.
Although Surrender does an excellent job of showing how dependent women in the 19th century were on men, Marcus and Jenny spend the book at cross-purposes with each other, and by the time they got on the same page, I no longer cared.