The Wind rose — Mary Holmes Mayer

Beautiful, black-haired, green-eyed Mary Kathleen Ryan did not want to leave the Spain she thought of as home to sail to distant, 18th-century America. Nor did she want to put herself under the command of Jason MacAuley, the handsome, arrogant Yankee sea captain who had been commissioned to take her to her stepmother.

But there was no escape from a return to the New England mansion where a childhood nightmare waited to terrify her again. And there was no way to ignore the desire that drew her to this man whose iron will conquered her fear of passion...and whose tender skill left her ecstatic in his arms.