Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1) - Softcover

Book 1 of 4: The White Sails Series

Lombard, Emma

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9780645105803: Discerning Grace (The White Sails Series Book 1)
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ISBN 10: 0645105805 ISBN 13: 9780645105803
Publisher: Emma Lombard, 2021

Synopsis

As the first full-length novel in The White Sails Series, DISCERNING GRACE captures the spirit of an independent woman whose feminine lens blows the ordered patriarchal decks of a 19th century tall ship to smithereens.

Wilful Grace Baxter, will not marry old Lord Silverton with his salivary incontinence and dead-mouse stink. Discovering she is a pawn in an arrangement between slobbery Silverton and her calculating father, Grace is devastated when Silverton reveals his true callous nature.

Refusing this fate, Grace resolves to stow away. Heading to the docks, disguised as a lad to ease her escape, she encounters smooth-talking naval recruiter, Gilly, who lures her aboard HMS Discerning with promises of freedom and exploration in South America.

When Grace's big mouth lands her bare-bottomed over a cannon for insubordination, her identity is exposed. The captain wants her back in London but his orders, to chart the icy archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, forbid it. Lieutenant Seamus Fitzwilliam gallantly offers to take Grace off the fretting captain's hands by placing her under his protection.

Grace must now win over the crew she betrayed with her secret, while managing her feelings towards her taciturn protector, whose obstinate chivalry stifles her new-found independence. But when Grace disregards Lieutenant Fitzwilliam's warnings about the dangers of the unexplored archipelago, it costs a friend his life and she realises she is not as free as she believes.

DISCERNING GRACE is historical women's fiction that will appeal to fans of Claire Fraser from Outlander and Demelza Poldark from Poldark - in other words, fans of feisty historical female leads.

2021 Indie B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree

2021 Bronze Medalist for Historical Romance, The Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year Award

2021 1st Place-CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction, Chanticleer International Book Award

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About the Author

Emma Lombard was born in Pontefract in the UK. She grew up in Africa-calling Zimbabwe and South Africa home for a few years-before finally settling in Brisbane Australia, and raising four boys. Before she started writing historical fiction, she was a freelance editor in the corporate world, which was definitely not half as exciting as writing rollicking romantic adventures. Her characters are fearless seafarers, even though in real life Emma gets disastrously sea sick.

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Publisher
Emma Lombard
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0645105805
ISBN 13 
9780645105803
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
372
Rating
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    1,516 ratings by Goodreads

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Publisher: Emma Lombard, 2021
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