The two board Bennett’s ship, Jade, where Bennett promptly imprisons him in her bilge. Priest refused to tell her who penned said missive for reasons (whomever do you think it could be?!?!?) and so she left him.

Bennett and Priest are estranged because a year into their we-have-sex-all-the-time-even-though-we-are-the-leaders-of–a-large-ship-with-guns marriage, Bennett found a breakup letter to Priest from a mysterious lover and this made her feel very very bad. When we meet Bennett, she is on the run from her husband, the sexiest man in Christendom, the inaptly named Priest. Carrageenan? Clove oil? Sadly, this is never specified. (I’m curious as to what that substance actually was. Thankfully, one of our three exceptionally good-looking leads–and the one who has the largest dick to ever cross the Atlantic–is never without lube. I’m betting you can guess how the three collide. Passion heats, secrets unravel, and hearts entangle until they break.

When they collide in a battle to protect her, the lines blur between enemies and lovers. Two gorgeous captains stand on opposite sides of the law. But can she walk away from their twisted desires? She must escape Ashley’s prison and Priest’s deceit. Not when she’s captured by the ice-cold pirate hunter, Lord Ashley Cutler.

Nothing will stop him from coming for her. The unfaithful, stormy-eyed libertine hunts her with terrifying possessiveness. Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. As my mom says, there’s no accounting for taste.Īmazon summarizes this far fetched plot thusly: Throw in a gag inducing amount of rape, torture, and extremely florid writing and you have a god awful novel. That said, a book set in the early 1700s in which a smoking hot 21 year old tiny blonde who spends inordinate amounts of time having kinky sex in various cabins on the high seas is the most successful pirate captain floating about the New World turned out to be too much for me. Our imaginations allow us to explore the unknown and the unlikely and that’s a damn good thing. I don’t need to actually believe in time travel to enjoy Outlander. Sigh.Īs a rule, I am all for the suspension of disbeliefin art. That’s five hours of my life I’ll never get back. His review of Sea of Ruin, which may be found here, is so engagingly hilarious I had to check out the book for myself. Why did I opt to read a pirate ménage à trois romance? I blame Alexis Hall.

One is a Promise by Pam Godwin