My Dearest Love — Diana Haviland

Fleeing antebellum Charleston in the wake of a family scandal, Briana Cameron boards a clipper ship and meets Captain Devlin Rafferty. Facing a future alone in San Francisco, Briana allows herself to be swept into a dangerous affair with Rafferty. Briana finds herself torn between two suitors--wealthy Cole Forrester, the man of her dreams, and Captain Devlin Rafferty, who incites her passions. Now, branded by a lover she can neither claim nor set free, she is unaware that the other man vows to make her his own--any way he can.