The Sea Witch

Sirens Of The Sea #1

by Ruth Ryan Langan

Three proper English sisters who, upon the death of their father and brother in a shipwreck, take over the family business -- as privateers in the employ of Charles of England.

THE HANDSOME CAPTAIN WAS DUTY BOUND...

At the dying man's request, Riordan Spencer had pledged to watch over John Lambert's beautiful daughters. But when he arrived in Land's End, he never expected that Ambrosia Lambert would ignite a passion in him unlike any he'd ever known!

Though irresistibly drawn to the mysterious Captain Spencer, Ambrosia would not be swayed from her mission to carry on her father's legacy. Yet how could she convince her handsome protector that her need to remain a privateer to the king would not stand in the way of the powerful love that surged between them?

Genres: Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Harlequin, Medieval, Pirates

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 2000

About the author

Ruth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.

Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.

Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.

Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan

Reviews

[MV · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this adventurous Harlequin Historical from the year 2000 (that's the publication date, not the historical setting ;)). This is the first in a trilogy about three seafaring privateer sisters in 1600s England (which, according to HH, is the Medieval time period ... lol). There's plenty of swashbuckling action with pirate battles and daring roof-leaping escapes, and the sisters truly seem to have no fear (except when they must stand before King Charles II). Now the sex scenes were mostly forgettable, not that I was expecting much, and the book lost momentum with me for adding in an utterly pointless minor conflict at the very end, with the hero making a dumb decision that was overcome just a few pages later. After all the preceding thrilling action scenes, having this silly human dithering seemed so bland. Maybe it was just padding to reach a required page count. In any case, this was a fun ride overall, and one of the better HHs I have tried.

[Frances · Rating 1 out of 5]

The only good thing about this book was its cover. We have three sword welding heroines, a deaf grandfather who begins hearing about 30 pages from the end, two old ladies, and an old first mate. They take on pirates, with the injury prone hero, and defeat said pirates several times, they leap building, in their dresses, including the old ladies, old man, and suddenly hearing grandfather, and all has a happy ending. Hope I didn't give too much away.

[Jaime]

I liked the adventure as well as the romance. Quite liked how independent and courageous the sisters were written.

[Dani Moore · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun predictable romance with pirates, brave sisters and a dashing Capyain! Good escape reading for a troubled mind.

[Homer H. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The action parts of this novel seems to have been written by a man. Langan's a great writer. There was much learned about history.