The Captain's Castaway (Signet Regency Romance)

By Christine Scheel

Saved from the sea by a captain in the British Navy, a distressed Julianna Adams worries for her father, who may have perished. So the captain decides to help her no matter the cost, earning not only this beautiful castaway's trust, but also her love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451215591
• ISBN13: 9780451215598
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Signet
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.6" x 0.6" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Very interesting Regency

I found this book to be very diverting and interesting. The characters were well-thought out, esp. Nicholas. The pace is fairly fast, and it is especially pleasant to have an American heroine in the mix. The only gripe I have is the ending feels a bit rushed, as others have noticed, and I found the way Nicholas rescued Julianna's father a bit silly, and not very believable. But it was still a very enjoyable book.

More an adventure than a romance

The Captain's Castaway is a Regency about a young American woman, Julianna Adams, who's cast adrift when the ship she & her father are taking to England begins to sink. She's rescued, near death, and taken aboard Captain Sir Nicholas Sidney's ship. Thus begins a dense, adventure-filled story. Julianna's father is missing--in fact, the entire ship they were on is missing--and she presumes he's dead. Until a letter arrives from him with cryptic message saying only that he's alive and well, and signed with his initials, which are also the initials of a French spy. Julianna enlists Nicholas's aid in finding her father. In addition to the search for Julianna's father and the spy, there's also a fortune hunter to contend with, and the negative impressions local Society has of Americans to overcome. The adventure is lively and well-written, and the shipboard sequences are very vivid and realistic. Often, in the shorter format (214 pages), something's got to give, and in this case, it's the relationship. I'd have liked to see more interaction between the hero and heroine and the development of their feelings for each other.