Star Keeper
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Set during the American Revolution, this enthralling historical romance featuring the third generation of the Sutherland family tells the story of a rebel willing to die for his nation's freedom . . . and a woman ready to cross battle lines for the man she loves
His enemies call him Star Rider. The son of a Scottish rebel and an American woman, John Patrick Sutherland raids British ships and seizes their cargo for the patriot cause—until his own ship goes down in the Delaware River. Badly wounded and determined not to die at the end of an English rope, he finds refuge at the home of a compassionate beauty whose loyalties are with the Tories.
Annette Carey aids the crown by tending British soldiers. When she takes in an injured man who is introduced to her as a high-ranking officer named John Gunn, she is powerfully drawn to him, unaware that he is the legendary privateer who has eluded capture for so long. As she gives in to traitorous desire, Annette is tested in ways she couldn't have foreseen, and finds herself risking her future for her enemy—a man she must now trust with her life.
Star Keeper is the 3rd book in the Scottish Star Series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This nicely detailed Revolutionary War historical picks up with the next generation of the family featured in Potter's StarFinder. Injured while fleeing his sinking ship, anti-British John Patrick Sutherland, known as the Star Rider, must seek medical help from his half-brother, Noel Marsh, a doctor in Philadelphia. Noel doesn't share his brother's rebel sympathies and only helps reluctantly, getting him a bed in a local loyalist hospital run by Annette Carey. Sutherland is immediately taken with Annette and tries to hide his true identity. Annette uncovers his secret and contemplates turning him over to the British but doesn't because he's the first man to whom she has been attracted in years. Amid gun battles and raging seas, the two fall in love. Their romance is interrupted by the ongoing conflict, and Sutherland must risk his life to help free Noel from prison. In an unsurprising conclusion, love conquers all, and Sutherland brings both his brother and his beloved around to his side.
