Nicole Lassiter has never known anyone
like Captain Derek Sutherland, her father’s sworn enemy before. After a night of passion, Derek rejects Nicole and
she vows to exact her revenge by beating him in the high-stakes sailing race from Europe
to Australia.
Derek
Sutherland has never known anyone like Nicole Lassiter.
Her quick wit and her resistance confuses him and he can’t help but want her
desperately. Derek doesn’t think he can
trust her at all, so how can he desire her? She
is nothing like the women that he prefers, he vows to stop thinking of her.
The sailing
race is a high-stakes race but the stakes are raised higher than ever before.....when
hearts are involved.
Debut
author, Kresley Cole sails into readers hearts and memories with this fantastic tale of
seduction, danger, deception, sassiness and love.
THE CAPTAIN
OF ALL PLEASURES is fast-paced action from beginning to end with smart and sassy dialogue
and pulsating sexual tension between Nicole and Derek.
Nicole is a feisty spitfire who longs for the open seas and for the love of a
lifetime. No matter what she begins to feel
for Derek, it becomes a matter of pride, determination and survival to beat him in the big
race. The sexual tension is steamy and even
the great seas can’t put out the fire that Derek and Nicole generate together.
With each
page turned, readers come to care for the characters and greatly anticipate what Ms. Cole
has in store for Derek and Nicole and the outcome of the race. The anticipation couldn’t have been sweeter
and the ending couldn’t have been better.
Kresley
Cole writes this tale with compelling words, with the “know how” and her career
as an author sets sail and keeps going......for a long journey ahead.
Find a 2004
calendar and make a note for July of next year.....Kresley Cole’s sequel to this hit
will be released.....THE PRICE OF PLEASURE. A
year is a long time.....let’s hope it passes quickly so we can learn more about Derek’s
brother Grant!
Reviewed by Tracey West for The Road to Romance
June 10, 2003 |
