Mistress of Mogador

When you're tired of reading about well-behaved women, Mistress of Mogador rewards you with a love story of passion and intrigue, but with equal parts humor and wry dialog, and a story of adventure and danger. In a world of secrets, opportunity and menace, this bohemian saga has it all.

From 19th-century Liverpool to the port of Mogador, Morocco, peril and risk are everywhere. Nora Mandrake, a British ship owner and captain, must navigate more than rough seas as she chooses between an old love and a new one. Nora is about to set the desert on fire, and it's already blazing hot in Moroccco. But in a country where tradition governs all and cultural differences constrain movements, each woman must decide what she is willing to risk for an uncommon love in a world pivoting unsteadily on the eve of the 20th century. 

Mandrake soon realizes her most dangerous enemy is herself—her passions force her to confront the troubling realization that her attitudes toward women are not much more enlightened than the prevailing male attitudes she has come to loathe in the Morocco she has come to love. 

How could this happen? Mandrake wants it all, and all of it is what she stands to lose.