The Captive (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series) - Hardcover

Holt, Victoria

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9781560540229: The Captive (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

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John, a fugitive from England wrongly accused of murder, and an English girl named Rosetta are shipwrecked in Africa, seized by pirates, and finally escape to England, where they strive to prove his innocence

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little of life beyond the schoolroom...until she found herself shipwrecked off the African coast. Saved from the raging seas by the ship's handsome, mysterious deckhand, she soon discovered her hero was fellow-Londoner Simon Perrivale, an infamous fugitive accused of murder.

Her hopes of rescue were dashed when they were abducted by pirates...and the lovely fair-haired Rosetta was sold to a Turkish Pasha. Locked away in his harem, she would risk her life to save her virtue -- and to unravel the mystery that had wrongfully imprisoned Simon.

But though she plotted her escape from the exotic Middle East to the elegant mansions of London, Rosetta was still bound by a consuming passion that would forever make her love's captive...

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