the Lady and Loyalist

Miss Susan Bailey shouldn't be enjoying beautiful sunsets over the Atlantic with a grumpy colonist. She swore not to marry while her mother lives. Her large dowry has given her lots of practice dodging potential suitors. But when her younger brother sets off on an adventure to the colonies, she can't stay put. Someone has to keep him out of trouble. Only she seems to be finding trouble of her own. Trouble with stormy gray eyes. Trouble...because marrying a Virginian is unthinkable. Especially in 1774. Charles Johnson hasn't been home in seven years, but an urgent message from his father insists he return immediately. He books passage on a merchant vessel bound for Virginia, carrying three other passengers, including the engaging and pragmatic Miss Bailey. Though determined to remain strangers, when he succumbs to seasickness, he cannot refuse her assistance. Indeed, he soon cannot refuse her anything, not even the friendship she demands from him. After all, it's foolish to hope for something more when their destinies are an ocean apart.