Widowed Silence Hollingbrook is impoverished, lovely, and kind-and nine months ago she made a horrible mistake. She went to a river pirate for help in saving her husband and in the process made a bargain that cost her her marriage. That night wounded her so terribly that she hides in the foundling home she helps run with her brother. Except now that same river pirate is back...and he's asking for her help. Charming Mickey O'Connor is the most ruthless river pirate in London. Devastatingly handsome and fearsomely intelligent, he clawed his way up through London's criminal underworld. Mickey has no use for tender emotions like compassion and love, and he sees people as pawns to be manipulated. And yet he's never been able to forget the naive captain's wife who came to him for help and spent one memorable night in his bed...talking. When his bastard baby girl was dumped in his lap-her mother having died-Mickey couldn't resist the Machiavellian urge to leave the baby on Silence's doorstep. The baby would be hidden from his enemies and he'd also bind Silence to him by her love for his daughter.
Biografie (Elizabeth Hoyt)
Elizabeth Hoyt wurde in New Orleans geboren, wo die Familie ihrer Mutter schon seit Generationen lebt. Aufgewachsen ist sie allerdings in St. Paul, Minnesota: Die eisigkalten Winter dort sind ihr noch lebhaft in Erinnerung. Sie studierte Anthropologie an der Universität von Wisconsin in Madison, wo sie ihren Ehemann kennenlernte bei einer archäologischen Grabung in einem Maisfeld. Deshalb wohnen die beiden heute auch in Illinois inmitten von Maisfeldern, zusammen mit ihren zwei Kindern und drei Hunden.
