Lavender Blue

She was in a stranger's bed, hating him . . . and wanting him.

Each time Jeanette thought of the Frenchman, she tingled with reluctant delight. He was a mercenary with no morals, no ethics --- a man of reckless daring.

He was the captain of the fastest ships on the ocean, and so she made a deal with him. A deal to transport her cotton and turn it into ammunition and medical supplies for her beloved Confederacy. The Yankees had murdered her husband. Now she wanted to get even.

There was one unusual aspect of their arrangement. The Frenchman insisted on making love to her every time he delivered a shipment.

And Jeanette could not get him out of her mind --- or keep her body from remembering . . .

Parris Afton Bonds?is the mother of five sons and the author of more than forty published novels. She is the co-founder and first vice president of Romance Writers of America as well as the co-founder of Southwest Writers Workshop, all of which nudged her closer to being committed to bedlam, which she has managed to avoid so far by a pretense at sanity.Declared by ABC's Nightline as one of the three bestselling authors of romantic fiction, Parris Afton Bonds has been interviewed by such luminaries as Charlie Rose and featured in major newspapers and magazines as well as published in more than a dozen languages. A New York Times bestselling author, she donates her time to teaching creative writing to both grade-school children and female inmates—both of which are captive audiences.?The Parris Award was established in her name by the Southwest Writers Workshop to honor a published writer who has given outstandingly of time and talent to other writers. Prestigious recipients of the Parris Award include Tony Hillerman and the Pulitzer nominee Norman Zollinger.