At one point he leaves a leaky boat for Merry to use in an escape attempt that nearly drowns her and turns Devon against her with renewed fervor. In the guise of a benevolent dictator, Captain Rand Morgan maneuvers those around him like chess pieces. These violent men with intriguing pasts are among the most realistic to be found in romantic fiction. Tossed into his cabin aboard a pirate ship, Merry struggles to preserve her virtue – and her very life.īut The Windflower is not your typical shipboard romance, nor are the pirates standard issue. But Mary is soon wrenched from her pallid existence and thrust into a full-blown adventure when she runs afoul of Devon, a gorgeous Englishman who thinks she’s consorting with his enemy.

Heroine Merry Wilding lives a quiet life in her small Virginia community with a maiden aunt whose devotion to all things British has left them nearly ostracized. When it was first released in 1984, The Windflower was a revelation to me – a many-layered, multi-textured leap forward that set a new standard of excellence for the genre.Īs evidenced in their other books, Sharon and Tom Curtis have a remarkable talent for taking an ordinary young woman and putting her into extraordinary circumstances that captivate the reader.

So begins one of the most beloved historical romances and my personal favorite. Merry Patricia Wilding was sitting on a cobblestone wall, sketching three rutabagas and daydreaming about the unicorn.”

The Windflower by Laura London