| Abstract |
"In a four-mast schooner too fast to catch, Captain Eric Bolene is a new kind of American adventurer. The rum runner brings liquor to thirsty Americans during the bawdy and dangerous days of Prohibition. Hailed as a hero in the fight against an unjust law he courts serious peril on the high seas as he outwits and outruns the United States Coast Guard. Intelligent, brave and cunning he has made a fortune in the illegal liquor trade. The lusty outlaw leads a life of devil-may-care until the day he sails his schooner, Black Heart, to Okracoke Isle, North Carolina where chance brings the young and beautiful May Kaney onboard his ship. Trapped on an island and doomed to a life of unending toil as a server in a speakeasy, May Kaney longs to escape Okracoke. When her boss, the local bootlegger, tries to rape her, she commits a desperate act. She hides on a runner's schooner and lands in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger. Explicit sexual content."-- Goodreads. |
