Face to Face // A Pirate's Mistress — Susan Ward

Lady Meredith Ann Merrick must not weaken against the temptation of Varian. He will be her ruin.

Varian Morgan cannot indulge his yearning for his beautiful hostage. This wayward sprite can only become his destruction.

Captive of desire, Meredith is swept away to America and into the arms of a man she cannot resist. Will love be enough to overcome her doubts, as Varian's mystery only becomes more mysterious?

Can passion bind two people trapped by secrets and the past?

When unexpected events send Meredith and Varian back to England, they are forced to share with each other the secrets each have been desperate to keep in hiding. Reeling in shock, their histories linked in ways neither could have ever imagined, Varian forces Meredith into a marriage of necessity instead of a union of love.