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Stormy Voyage
Tempest at sea
Bad luck, dire circumstances and a hearty desire to save her skin left Zara no choice but to stow away on board the Spirit of the Wind. With immense relief, she escaped the Arabic port of Oran. Then she met the ship's captain, Thor Cameron.
He ran a tight ship--that meant no women, especially women like Zara, clearly of ill repute. Outraged at his accusations, unnerved by his rugged masculinity, she challenged his arrogance with her own fierce pride and sharp tongue. The trouble was, the more sparks they ignited, the greater the heat....
Bad luck, dire circumstances and a hearty desire to save her skin left Zara no choice but to stow away on board the Spirit of the Wind. With immense relief, she escaped the Arabic port of Oran. Then she met the ship's captain, Thor Cameron.
He ran a tight ship--that meant no women, especially women like Zara, clearly of ill repute. Outraged at his accusations, unnerved by his rugged masculinity, she challenged his arrogance with her own fierce pride and sharp tongue. The trouble was, the more sparks they ignited, the greater the heat....
186 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1993
About the author
Sally Wentworth
108 books95 followersDoreen was born on 1936 or 1937 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She married Donald Alfred Hornsblow, with whom she has a son Keith, in 1968. The family lived in Braughing, England.
Doreen began her publishing career at a Fleet Street newspaper in London, where she thrived in the hectic atmosphere. She started writing after attending an evening class and sold her first novel to Mills & Boon in 1977, she published her novels under the pseudonym Sally Wentworth. Her novels were principally set in Great Britain or in exotic places like Canary Islands or Greece. Her first works are stand-alone novels, but in 1990s, she decided to create her first series. In 1991, she wrote a book in two parts about the Barclay twins and their great love, and in 1995, she wrote the Ties of Passion Trilogy about the Brodey family, that have money, looks, style, everything... except love.
Doreen was an accounts clerk at Associated Newspapers Ltd. in London, England, and accounts clerk at Consumers' Association in Hertford, England. In 1985, she was the founding chair of the Hertford Association of National Trust Members, and named its life president. She also collected knife rests and she was member of The Knife Rest Collectors Club.
Doreen Hornsblow died from cancer on 30 August 2001, at 64 years of age.
Doreen began her publishing career at a Fleet Street newspaper in London, where she thrived in the hectic atmosphere. She started writing after attending an evening class and sold her first novel to Mills & Boon in 1977, she published her novels under the pseudonym Sally Wentworth. Her novels were principally set in Great Britain or in exotic places like Canary Islands or Greece. Her first works are stand-alone novels, but in 1990s, she decided to create her first series. In 1991, she wrote a book in two parts about the Barclay twins and their great love, and in 1995, she wrote the Ties of Passion Trilogy about the Brodey family, that have money, looks, style, everything... except love.
Doreen was an accounts clerk at Associated Newspapers Ltd. in London, England, and accounts clerk at Consumers' Association in Hertford, England. In 1985, she was the founding chair of the Hertford Association of National Trust Members, and named its life president. She also collected knife rests and she was member of The Knife Rest Collectors Club.
Doreen Hornsblow died from cancer on 30 August 2001, at 64 years of age.
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February 7, 2018
"Era supărată pe ea însăși; adesea acționase din impuls și încerca să se controleze - dar era un lucru ciudat, fiindcă adesea se dovedise că impulsul fusese în favoarea ei."
"Aceasta era dragoste. Acea dragoste la care visase, sperând ca într-o zi s-o întâlnească, dar cu fiecare an care trecea având tot mai puține speranțe."
"Aceasta era dragoste. Acea dragoste la care visase, sperând ca într-o zi s-o întâlnească, dar cu fiecare an care trecea având tot mai puține speranțe."
January 26, 2018
Boogenhagen has the definitive spoiler review, so I’ll just talk about what struck me in this story. The romance is slow in coming – the H/h don’t get together until the last quarter of the story.
Instead of romance and throbbing loins of awareness, the author uses her page time to explore the theme of what occurs when men have absolute power.
So – review!
Heroine is great – if a bit naïve at the beginning. The “OM” who helped her stow away is an idiot and I liked him best when he was below deck seasick. The hero slut-shames the heroine based on her good looks and her profession, but eventually pulls his head out. There is torture by cleaning, which is the worst torture of them all, imo. The romance is of the struck-by-love-out-of-the-blue so popular in vintage romances.
There are a lot of interesting sailing ship details (pun alert!) if that kind of thing floats your boat.
Instead of romance and throbbing loins of awareness, the author uses her page time to explore the theme of what occurs when men have absolute power.
So – review!
Heroine is great – if a bit naïve at the beginning. The “OM” who helped her stow away is an idiot and I liked him best when he was below deck seasick. The hero slut-shames the heroine based on her good looks and her profession, but eventually pulls his head out. There is torture by cleaning, which is the worst torture of them all, imo. The romance is of the struck-by-love-out-of-the-blue so popular in vintage romances.
There are a lot of interesting sailing ship details (pun alert!) if that kind of thing floats your boat.
January 28, 2018
Re Stormy Voyage - Sally Wentworth brings us adventure on the High Seas - complete with three masted square-rigged old tyme sailing ship and a Captain named Thor - half Danish, big, blond and just insert bearded Chris Hemsworth pictures whenever he is on page.
The h is Zara and she is in a spot of bother. When the book opens she is dancing as part of a cabaret in Oran, which is a sea port town in Algeria. The h is trying to save up her fare to head back to England, she came out with a friend to do a duo act in one of the Algerian Med resorts. But her friend's mother became ill back home and the h gave her most of the money she had to pay the friend's airfare home.
The resort the h was working at let her go, so the h had to take whatever job she could find. Which means a somewhat sleazy cabaret and there is more than a hint that some of the dancers are willing to do extra favors on the side for the right price. The h isn't into that at all, she just wants to get home and her mother won't help. Her mother is trying to vicariously live out her own frustrated ambitions thru the h and she thinks any dancing job is better than a daughter who isn't actively on stage or trying to get there.
The h is ready to give up dancing, unfortunately it was the only training she was allowed growing up. But she is at the point where dog walking is looking as a great career alternative, if she can only get back home. Then she attracts the eye of a powerful and not so honourable Oran high mucky muck. He tries to coerce the h to "be nice to him" and the h refuses. So he gets really nasty.
He has someone steal the h's handbag with her passport and bank card in it. He has some guy follow the h around and then he is powerful enough to get her kicked out of her hotel. When he tries to grab the h while she is working, the h pushes him off and has to sneak out to get away from him. Threats are made to the h via her boss about compliance and so the h decides to ask the English sailing ship in the harbour for help. Some of the crew have been in the cabaret when she working and one of the younger ones listens to her story and agrees to help her out.
He takes her to the ship's skipper, which is Thor, but he dismisses her as a tart and refuses to help her. The h is desperate, she is very worried that if she appeals to the police they will take her in and she will be in the Oran guy's grasp. The young man from the sailing ship helps her stowaway on board by dressing as a dock worker and getting on the ship while provisions are being loaded.
The h manages to hide until the ship is far enough out at sea that it is too late to turn back. The ship has a business appointment in Rhodes, of the Colossus fame, it will be used in a movie about the Suleiman siege of Rhodes against the Knights Hospitaller. Thor finds the h hiding out and she lies and says she got on board on her own.
Since the ship's cook became ill in Oran and had to be left behind, the crew is cooking and it isn't going well. The H assigns the h cleaning tasks and tho Zara offers to cook, he is pretty harsh and derogatory towards her. The h is a good cook tho, so when the first mate tastes her food, he assigns her as kitchen help to the engine guy that is actually supposed to be cooking. Zara cooks for all of the crew except Thor, he has to eat the engine guy's food and it is pretty horrible.
Then the young man who helped the h get on board gets drunk, (his shipmates laced his beer,) and goes to Zara's cabin and starts trying to kiss her. Thor walks in on it and has a huge ranty moment. Zara is locked in her cabin at night and the first mate explains to Thor that the other crew mates were playing a practical joke.
Zara has no problems telling Thor off, but she is really careful to do a good job on the tasks she is assigned and she is a really good cook. Eventually Thor stops locking in her cabin when Zara makes a bikini out of a signal flag she found and it makes both him and the first mate fall over in laughter.
Zara doesn't get the joke and neither do we, but it serves to break the hostilities between Zara and Thor when he finally listens to her story and starts to believe her. He also tells her she needs to learn what the various signal flags mean.
Zara had to sneak out, so she couldn't take much with her and she has almost no clothes - hence the signal flag bikini. Thor finds her some other clothes and things are settling down to a routine. It will take a few weeks to get to Rhodes, the ship has engines and the galley is fully modern, but it is faster for them to sail. A big storm comes up and Zara helps with the watch when a few of the crew is sick and one of them is injured. Thor starts to lighten up and Zara realizes that he really is a nice man and starts to fall in love with him.
Then Thor kisses her and she responds and Thor has a freak out moment. He becomes the Captain Bligh to Zara's Fletcher Christian, but unlike Mr. Christian, Zara is so dispirited over the rejection of her interest that she mutely follows Thor's increasingly sadistic orders.
Thor has her repeat tasks multiple times, most of them to do with cleaning. Because the cleaning solutions she uses are really harsh, Zara's hands are soon cracked and bleeding. She tries to hide them but when she burns herself while carrying in dinner one night, the crew has a mini-mutiny and Thor is called to task by the entire ship for his bad behavior.
Thor admits that he is taking out his past baggage on Zara, but he refuses to say what that baggage is. Zara has figured out that some lady in the past has done him wrong, but she also recognizes that he is attracted to her and she believes he is the great love of her life. She doesn't know how to reach him tho and she is dooming her love as to be forever unrequited.
We all get to Rhodes and the filming begins, one of the film crew makes some nasty comments about Zara being the ship's doxy and Thor overhears him. He kicks the guy out and then asks Zara if she gets that kind of remark often. Zara explains that women in the entertainment business are frequently harassed and Thor seems to get really pale and feel ashamed of himself.
Zara has a hugely funny moment where she thinks she will start her own #metoo movement when she gets home to England. She will call it Girls Against Sexual Prejudice or GASP and she will get all the dancers to march to Downing Street in their costumes carrying banners that read 'DANCERS DEMAND RESPECT'. She seems quite chuffed about it, but then reality intervenes.
Thor had told her that he would be kicking her off the boat at Rhodes, but he did send to Athens to get her a new passport and wrote to her bank for her. The passport is delayed, but the Rhodesian officials will allow her on shore, however her bank writes that all of her money was withdrawn in Oran. So Zara is broke, the rejected Oran guy stole her money and she isn't sure what she will do.
The crew likes Zara and her cooking, so they again threaten to mutiny unless Thor gives her the cook's job while the ship is in Rhodes. Thor reluctantly agrees, Zara realizes it is because he is attracted to her and still fighting his feelings. Then the film people are throwing a big party and the crew is invited. Thor has paid Zara some wages, so she takes the impulsive opportunity to go buy a dress that will knock his socks off. It does and after Zara gets back from the party, Thor had left after dancing with her, Thor asks her to be his lover.
Zara gets a little angry, first he calls her a trampy tart and now he wants her. But she is damned if she does, cause he will claim she is easy and damned if she doesn't because he will say she is trying to punish him. Thor braces himself for her rejection, because he knows that she is exactly right and Zara goes off to her cabin. But she does love Thor, so she changes into her nightgown and goes off to find his cabin.
We get a fade to black lurve mojo moment and the next day Zara is really happy. But Thor doesn't want her on the ship at night any more. The crew isn't allowed to fraternize with ladies and Thor can't bend the rules just because he is the skipper. So he gets them a tiny flat in town. They are luving it up nightly and Zara is hoping to share Thor's life forever, but when the film crew offers Zara a part with better pay, Thor tells her to take it.
Thor finally confesses that when he was first a sailor, he had a fiance who promised to wait for him. But she dumped him and married some other guy, cause newbie sailors don't make much money. Then his first captaincy was for a conglomerate of investors. He fell in love with the daughter of one of them and she finagled her father in letting her sail with the ship.
Once she got on the ship she went after every man in sight, sometimes bringing men she had picked up in port back to the ship too. Thor finally had to kick her off the ship, she was causing too much drama. She lied to her father and Thor got fired. It almost derailed his career, as there aren't many sailing vessels to captain and so when he got this job, he refused to allow women on board.
Thor has issues with the ladies and Zara understands that, even tho he claims this is the happiest he has ever been, he loves the ocean and he thinks that most women don't want to spend their married life waiting for a man who rarely is there and they have to do all the kid things and life by themselves. Zara doesn't see any way to convince him he is wrong about her and they could get married and sail around together, so she takes the job with the film crew.
On the last day of filming, a big storm comes up and Zara is one of the extra's on the ship. One of the crew gets tossed off the main mast when lighting hits it and Thor jumps into the storm tossed sea to rescue him. Zara and the rest of the crew drop the lifeboat and Zara manages to find them. Everyone is rescued and safe, but Zara is in a fury.
She storms into Thor's cabin and tells him he should be smart enough to get his own ship if he likes the sea so much and he is absolutely correct when he says he isn't good enough for her, because a real man would face up to his feelings and believe in hers and she loves him and can't believe that he had to pull a big dumb hero move and jump into the ocean when there was lifeboat all ready to go.
She slams out after telling him he is a blind fool not to understand that there is room in his life to love a woman and the ocean and he isn't man enough for her, so he can just stick with his small minded little prejudices - and she hopes they keep him warm at night.
The whole crew is in the hallway, cheering Zara on and she storms off. Thor is in shock, but he goes all over Rhodes trying to find her. Zara has completely disappeared and no one knows if she has gone back to England or what. Thor searches and searches but eventually the ship has to sail.
After the ship gets out to sea, Thor goes to his cabin and Zara is reading a magazine in his bed and asking him what took so long. She also warns him that he tempts mutiny again if he tries to kick her out.
Thor is really happy to see her and apologizes for being an idiot. He really loves her and she means more to him than the sea. He asks Zara to marry him and Zara tells him only if they can buy their own ship. Thor explains that he is buying the one they are on, so they can now marry and continue sailing on together.
Zara is in full agreement, cause she loves the sea as much as Thor does and the last laugh comes when she asks him why he was laughing at her signal flag bikini. Thor starts laughing again and explains that the flag she was wearing means 'Welcome Aboard' and Zara laughs too, then tells him that she will take a berth under Thor anytime, which makes Thor laugh harder and we leave the two of them laughing and loving it up together for a smooth sailing HPlandia HEA.
This one was really good, but the romance development was really slow, they don't get together until the last fourth of the book. However the build up to the romance was great and Zara was an awesome heroine who had no problems putting Thor in his place when he got derogatory.
Thor was a interesting H, (and let us not forget the Chris Hemsworth thing.) The whole Captain Bligh part was really bad behavior, but his backstory and his obvious remorse went a long way to redeem him. So this is overall a really worthwhile HP outing and give it a go if you run into it.
The h is Zara and she is in a spot of bother. When the book opens she is dancing as part of a cabaret in Oran, which is a sea port town in Algeria. The h is trying to save up her fare to head back to England, she came out with a friend to do a duo act in one of the Algerian Med resorts. But her friend's mother became ill back home and the h gave her most of the money she had to pay the friend's airfare home.
The resort the h was working at let her go, so the h had to take whatever job she could find. Which means a somewhat sleazy cabaret and there is more than a hint that some of the dancers are willing to do extra favors on the side for the right price. The h isn't into that at all, she just wants to get home and her mother won't help. Her mother is trying to vicariously live out her own frustrated ambitions thru the h and she thinks any dancing job is better than a daughter who isn't actively on stage or trying to get there.
The h is ready to give up dancing, unfortunately it was the only training she was allowed growing up. But she is at the point where dog walking is looking as a great career alternative, if she can only get back home. Then she attracts the eye of a powerful and not so honourable Oran high mucky muck. He tries to coerce the h to "be nice to him" and the h refuses. So he gets really nasty.
He has someone steal the h's handbag with her passport and bank card in it. He has some guy follow the h around and then he is powerful enough to get her kicked out of her hotel. When he tries to grab the h while she is working, the h pushes him off and has to sneak out to get away from him. Threats are made to the h via her boss about compliance and so the h decides to ask the English sailing ship in the harbour for help. Some of the crew have been in the cabaret when she working and one of the younger ones listens to her story and agrees to help her out.
He takes her to the ship's skipper, which is Thor, but he dismisses her as a tart and refuses to help her. The h is desperate, she is very worried that if she appeals to the police they will take her in and she will be in the Oran guy's grasp. The young man from the sailing ship helps her stowaway on board by dressing as a dock worker and getting on the ship while provisions are being loaded.
The h manages to hide until the ship is far enough out at sea that it is too late to turn back. The ship has a business appointment in Rhodes, of the Colossus fame, it will be used in a movie about the Suleiman siege of Rhodes against the Knights Hospitaller. Thor finds the h hiding out and she lies and says she got on board on her own.
Since the ship's cook became ill in Oran and had to be left behind, the crew is cooking and it isn't going well. The H assigns the h cleaning tasks and tho Zara offers to cook, he is pretty harsh and derogatory towards her. The h is a good cook tho, so when the first mate tastes her food, he assigns her as kitchen help to the engine guy that is actually supposed to be cooking. Zara cooks for all of the crew except Thor, he has to eat the engine guy's food and it is pretty horrible.
Then the young man who helped the h get on board gets drunk, (his shipmates laced his beer,) and goes to Zara's cabin and starts trying to kiss her. Thor walks in on it and has a huge ranty moment. Zara is locked in her cabin at night and the first mate explains to Thor that the other crew mates were playing a practical joke.
Zara has no problems telling Thor off, but she is really careful to do a good job on the tasks she is assigned and she is a really good cook. Eventually Thor stops locking in her cabin when Zara makes a bikini out of a signal flag she found and it makes both him and the first mate fall over in laughter.
Zara doesn't get the joke and neither do we, but it serves to break the hostilities between Zara and Thor when he finally listens to her story and starts to believe her. He also tells her she needs to learn what the various signal flags mean.
Zara had to sneak out, so she couldn't take much with her and she has almost no clothes - hence the signal flag bikini. Thor finds her some other clothes and things are settling down to a routine. It will take a few weeks to get to Rhodes, the ship has engines and the galley is fully modern, but it is faster for them to sail. A big storm comes up and Zara helps with the watch when a few of the crew is sick and one of them is injured. Thor starts to lighten up and Zara realizes that he really is a nice man and starts to fall in love with him.
Then Thor kisses her and she responds and Thor has a freak out moment. He becomes the Captain Bligh to Zara's Fletcher Christian, but unlike Mr. Christian, Zara is so dispirited over the rejection of her interest that she mutely follows Thor's increasingly sadistic orders.
Thor has her repeat tasks multiple times, most of them to do with cleaning. Because the cleaning solutions she uses are really harsh, Zara's hands are soon cracked and bleeding. She tries to hide them but when she burns herself while carrying in dinner one night, the crew has a mini-mutiny and Thor is called to task by the entire ship for his bad behavior.
Thor admits that he is taking out his past baggage on Zara, but he refuses to say what that baggage is. Zara has figured out that some lady in the past has done him wrong, but she also recognizes that he is attracted to her and she believes he is the great love of her life. She doesn't know how to reach him tho and she is dooming her love as to be forever unrequited.
We all get to Rhodes and the filming begins, one of the film crew makes some nasty comments about Zara being the ship's doxy and Thor overhears him. He kicks the guy out and then asks Zara if she gets that kind of remark often. Zara explains that women in the entertainment business are frequently harassed and Thor seems to get really pale and feel ashamed of himself.
Zara has a hugely funny moment where she thinks she will start her own #metoo movement when she gets home to England. She will call it Girls Against Sexual Prejudice or GASP and she will get all the dancers to march to Downing Street in their costumes carrying banners that read 'DANCERS DEMAND RESPECT'. She seems quite chuffed about it, but then reality intervenes.
Thor had told her that he would be kicking her off the boat at Rhodes, but he did send to Athens to get her a new passport and wrote to her bank for her. The passport is delayed, but the Rhodesian officials will allow her on shore, however her bank writes that all of her money was withdrawn in Oran. So Zara is broke, the rejected Oran guy stole her money and she isn't sure what she will do.
The crew likes Zara and her cooking, so they again threaten to mutiny unless Thor gives her the cook's job while the ship is in Rhodes. Thor reluctantly agrees, Zara realizes it is because he is attracted to her and still fighting his feelings. Then the film people are throwing a big party and the crew is invited. Thor has paid Zara some wages, so she takes the impulsive opportunity to go buy a dress that will knock his socks off. It does and after Zara gets back from the party, Thor had left after dancing with her, Thor asks her to be his lover.
Zara gets a little angry, first he calls her a trampy tart and now he wants her. But she is damned if she does, cause he will claim she is easy and damned if she doesn't because he will say she is trying to punish him. Thor braces himself for her rejection, because he knows that she is exactly right and Zara goes off to her cabin. But she does love Thor, so she changes into her nightgown and goes off to find his cabin.
We get a fade to black lurve mojo moment and the next day Zara is really happy. But Thor doesn't want her on the ship at night any more. The crew isn't allowed to fraternize with ladies and Thor can't bend the rules just because he is the skipper. So he gets them a tiny flat in town. They are luving it up nightly and Zara is hoping to share Thor's life forever, but when the film crew offers Zara a part with better pay, Thor tells her to take it.
Thor finally confesses that when he was first a sailor, he had a fiance who promised to wait for him. But she dumped him and married some other guy, cause newbie sailors don't make much money. Then his first captaincy was for a conglomerate of investors. He fell in love with the daughter of one of them and she finagled her father in letting her sail with the ship.
Once she got on the ship she went after every man in sight, sometimes bringing men she had picked up in port back to the ship too. Thor finally had to kick her off the ship, she was causing too much drama. She lied to her father and Thor got fired. It almost derailed his career, as there aren't many sailing vessels to captain and so when he got this job, he refused to allow women on board.
Thor has issues with the ladies and Zara understands that, even tho he claims this is the happiest he has ever been, he loves the ocean and he thinks that most women don't want to spend their married life waiting for a man who rarely is there and they have to do all the kid things and life by themselves. Zara doesn't see any way to convince him he is wrong about her and they could get married and sail around together, so she takes the job with the film crew.
On the last day of filming, a big storm comes up and Zara is one of the extra's on the ship. One of the crew gets tossed off the main mast when lighting hits it and Thor jumps into the storm tossed sea to rescue him. Zara and the rest of the crew drop the lifeboat and Zara manages to find them. Everyone is rescued and safe, but Zara is in a fury.
She storms into Thor's cabin and tells him he should be smart enough to get his own ship if he likes the sea so much and he is absolutely correct when he says he isn't good enough for her, because a real man would face up to his feelings and believe in hers and she loves him and can't believe that he had to pull a big dumb hero move and jump into the ocean when there was lifeboat all ready to go.
She slams out after telling him he is a blind fool not to understand that there is room in his life to love a woman and the ocean and he isn't man enough for her, so he can just stick with his small minded little prejudices - and she hopes they keep him warm at night.
The whole crew is in the hallway, cheering Zara on and she storms off. Thor is in shock, but he goes all over Rhodes trying to find her. Zara has completely disappeared and no one knows if she has gone back to England or what. Thor searches and searches but eventually the ship has to sail.
After the ship gets out to sea, Thor goes to his cabin and Zara is reading a magazine in his bed and asking him what took so long. She also warns him that he tempts mutiny again if he tries to kick her out.
Thor is really happy to see her and apologizes for being an idiot. He really loves her and she means more to him than the sea. He asks Zara to marry him and Zara tells him only if they can buy their own ship. Thor explains that he is buying the one they are on, so they can now marry and continue sailing on together.
Zara is in full agreement, cause she loves the sea as much as Thor does and the last laugh comes when she asks him why he was laughing at her signal flag bikini. Thor starts laughing again and explains that the flag she was wearing means 'Welcome Aboard' and Zara laughs too, then tells him that she will take a berth under Thor anytime, which makes Thor laugh harder and we leave the two of them laughing and loving it up together for a smooth sailing HPlandia HEA.
This one was really good, but the romance development was really slow, they don't get together until the last fourth of the book. However the build up to the romance was great and Zara was an awesome heroine who had no problems putting Thor in his place when he got derogatory.
Thor was a interesting H, (and let us not forget the Chris Hemsworth thing.) The whole Captain Bligh part was really bad behavior, but his backstory and his obvious remorse went a long way to redeem him. So this is overall a really worthwhile HP outing and give it a go if you run into it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 4, 2020
Sally Wentworth created a captivating adventure through out the seas in "Stormy Voyage" where our spirited heroine Zara Beaument has to smuggle herself on board the Spirit of the Wind to escape the dangers of Oran.But our golden-haired hero, Captain of the ship, Thor Cameron loathes the sight of her but declares that he will drop her on the shore of Rhodes. In the meanwhile she cocks and cleans after the crew-and fights head to head against Thor`s insults and violent temper not knowing she is falling in love with him before it`s too late.
Wentworth knows her genre,and she did it different in this one.I seriously felt like i was watching a movie.The romance is slowly developing,and i loved it.Her indirect characterization of Thor and Zara was interesting,and with these two falling in love it made a engrossing voyage i will late forget.
Wentworth knows her genre,and she did it different in this one.I seriously felt like i was watching a movie.The romance is slowly developing,and i loved it.Her indirect characterization of Thor and Zara was interesting,and with these two falling in love it made a engrossing voyage i will late forget.
January 20, 2020
"Stormy Voyage" is the story of Zara and Thor.
Our h is a dancer, earning her living by performing cabarets. When a lecherous Sheikh gets enamored by her, she thwarts him and he then proceeds to destroy her life in retaliation. Escaping to a docked ship by disguising herself, she soon enters into a battle with the captain, a misogynistic judgmental pig, who does not want to have her onboard. The book then proceeds into a fierce battle between the h and H, where he forces her into servitude, by abusing and slut shaming her and making her work until her hands bleed. She initially fights him off, but soon gives up as she finds herself falling in love with him. But with the H pushing her away at every corner, will he ever be able to accept his feelings for her?
An angsty read with loads of drama ashore. The H is a complete ahole to the h, and it really gets a bit *annoying*, especially when she just gives into her fate. However, the book gets better in the second half where there's surrender, realizations and ultimate HEA.
Enjoyed it!
Safe
4/5
Our h is a dancer, earning her living by performing cabarets. When a lecherous Sheikh gets enamored by her, she thwarts him and he then proceeds to destroy her life in retaliation. Escaping to a docked ship by disguising herself, she soon enters into a battle with the captain, a misogynistic judgmental pig, who does not want to have her onboard. The book then proceeds into a fierce battle between the h and H, where he forces her into servitude, by abusing and slut shaming her and making her work until her hands bleed. She initially fights him off, but soon gives up as she finds herself falling in love with him. But with the H pushing her away at every corner, will he ever be able to accept his feelings for her?
An angsty read with loads of drama ashore. The H is a complete ahole to the h, and it really gets a bit *annoying*, especially when she just gives into her fate. However, the book gets better in the second half where there's surrender, realizations and ultimate HEA.
Enjoyed it!
Safe
4/5
June 7, 2022
Tempest at sea
Bad luck, dire circumstances and a hearty desire to save her skin left Zara no choice but to stow away on board the Spirit of the Wind. With immense relief, she escaped the Arabic port of Oran. Then she met the ship's captain, Thor Cameron.
He ran a tight ship--that meant no women, especially women like Zara, clearly of ill repute. Outraged at his accusations, unnerved by his rugged masculinity, she challenged his arrogance with her own fierce pride and sharp tongue. The trouble was, the more sparks they ignited, the greater the heat
Bad luck, dire circumstances and a hearty desire to save her skin left Zara no choice but to stow away on board the Spirit of the Wind. With immense relief, she escaped the Arabic port of Oran. Then she met the ship's captain, Thor Cameron.
He ran a tight ship--that meant no women, especially women like Zara, clearly of ill repute. Outraged at his accusations, unnerved by his rugged masculinity, she challenged his arrogance with her own fierce pride and sharp tongue. The trouble was, the more sparks they ignited, the greater the heat
April 3, 2021
'I'll take a berth under you anytime, Captain!'
What?
I am truly disgusted by the hero. The 'hero' called the heroine 'a cheap tart' for kissing him?! And treated her like a prostitute from the very beginning when she begged for his help.
What?
I am truly disgusted by the hero. The 'hero' called the heroine 'a cheap tart' for kissing him?! And treated her like a prostitute from the very beginning when she begged for his help.
May 19, 2024
I'd probably reread this, so it's getting four stars. Plenty of other perspicacious reviews and I'm on holiday so just a few words to jog my memory. The h, Zara, a down on her luck dancer in an Algerian port city (😱) is forced to stow away (with help from a young male crew neophyte) on a three masted sailing ship which is heading to Rhodes to be in a film. This h was incredibly likeable: a bit cheeky, determined, resourceful, practical...and soon became very popular with the all male crew (also all very likeable men. Wistful sigh here. They teased but treated her with respect. We can dream girls, can't we?) She was not, however, popular with the captain, stern Danish/Scottish bearded blond Thor. If you're into Master and Servant there's a whole cruel obedience/punishment segment in this that may very well float your boat. He is so clearly fighting his desire and her stoic submission til her hands bleed is quite something. Even the other men mutiny over his treatment of her. When they get to Rhodes and end up all being extras and going to shore parties Captain finally cracks. Of course his hang ups and marriage to the sea are standing in the way of a HEA until she stows away again and makes him see sense. These two will be fine unless and until she gets broody. But let's not think about that downward spiral at this point. Let's stick with romance. Very entertaining and satisfying read.
June 16, 2023
I enjoyed the heroine for being brave and cool and hard working but the H was way to judgmental, and spent so much of the booking calling her a tramp that the HEA pulled out of somebodies arse in the last 4 pages felt really unsatisfactory. Plus the h had to do ALL the chasing - I hate that, I want the H to be the one running around all love sick damn it.
October 29, 2024
Not worth reading
March 13, 2024
This made me laugh out loud for the first half (before she fell in love) - such a kooky, spunky heroine! But both the hero and the heroine are atypical. The hero had some serious issues against women from his past experience, and I really think he needed to grovel at the end to deserve the heroine. I would have upped a star for some real regret and apology from him (he was NASTY to her). Also the scenes of her dancing with little on with other women were just a little demeaning for such a feisty character.
It could have been better.
It could have been better.
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