Кресли Коул: The Captain of All Pleasures

In her exhilarating debut novel, Kresley Cole captures the drama, passion, and boundless adventure of the high seas — as one fiery lass finds herself caught in a tide of torrid romance. Raised as a free spirit aboard her American sea captain father s majestic clipper ship, willful Nicole Lassiter has never encountered an obstacle she couldn t overcome — until she meets Captain Derek Sutherland. His sizzling kisses leave her longing, but after they share a night of passion, his subsequent disdain makes her blood boil. Nicole vows to take her revenge — by helping her father beat Sutherland in a high-stakes competition: the Great Circle Race from England to Australia. Nicole s scheme is thrown overboard after her father is wrongly imprisoned, yet she remains undaunted — taking to the high seas with her father s ship. But a storm wrecks her plans, and she finds herself a virtual prisoner aboard Sutherland s vessel. And while her mind tells her she should escape, her body urges her to surrender…