The Devil's Own Luck — Elizabeth Essex

A man sworn to duty…
Captain Matthew Kent has always been bound by his service to the Royal Navy. But when the Admiralty rewards him handsomely for cleaning out a nest of traitors, he is tempted to throw it all away for a second chance with Tressa Teague, the very woman he should not admire -- a smuggler.

A woman on her own mission…
Tressa Teague is daughter of the vicar, expected to be everything sweetness and light. But instead, she has the heart of a pirate, and is the brains if not the brawn behind the local smuggling ring. She thought she had seen the last of the dangerous sea captain who had come into their midst. But when he returns to the rugged coast of Cornwall to offer her the chance of a lifetime, will she lose her freedom? Or only her heart?

(This novella previous appeared in Tempted at Christmas, Christmas at Castle Keyvnor, Book IV, as, “A Merry Devil.”)