Malory-Anderson family saga

Scottish beauty Roslynn Chadwick needs the safety of marriage to protect her from an unscrupulous cousin and the fortune-hunting scoundrels who covet her wealth. And Anthony Malory is precisely the sort of handsome rogue she's been warned against. A cunning, ruthless, yet irresistible rake, Anthony's sensual blue eyes speak of pleasures beyond her imagining-and Roslynn dearly wishes she dared to surrender to such a man. Believing his passionate promises...

Beautiful, mischievous and shamelessly daring, young Amy is a Malory through and through--as wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins. And now that she has reached marriageable age, Amy has set her amorous sights on a most unsuitable mate--the strait-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung for piracy.

The Malory family gathers at Haverston to celebrate the holidays, but in the midst of the domestic turmoil, a mysterious present arrives that will dramatically affect the lives of everyone present

After her mother's death, Gabrielle Brooks sets sail to the Caribbean in search of her father, discovers he has become a pirate, and spends three happy years sailing with him. His decision that she should return to London to find a proper husband leads to intrigue, scandal, and Gabrielle's passionate quest for revenge, as she finds herself falling for a carefree sea captain with no interest in matrimony.

Richard Allen, having left England and taken up with a group of Caribbean pirates under the false identity of a Frenchman, returns home and falls in love with the married Georgina Malory, and, while trying to woo her at a masked ball, Richard meets Julia Miller, who eventually finds out his true identity but agrees to enter into a charade with him in order to avoid marrying the Earl of Manford's son.

"While the Malory and Anderson families set aside longtime rivalries to hunt down a man who has abducted James and Georgina's beloved daughter from her American debutante party, Jack discovers that her captor is an alluring nobleman who would settle an old score against her father."--