Once Upon a Midnight Sea: Romance Adventure Upon the High Seas!

Publisher Marketing: The heiress of Montague Shipping sets out across Chesapeake Bay to attend a party, but instead finds herself shanghaied by a vengeful thief intending to use her ship-and her jewels-to break a prisoner out of Devil's Island! If you love the historical romances of Amanda Quick, Jo Beverly and Elizabeth Hoyt, you won't want to miss this exciting debut by Ava Bradley. Jewel thief Christian De la Croix has spent his life plotting revenge against the double-crosser who left his father to die on French Guiana's brutal island prison twenty years earlier. But when a letter comes revealing his father is alive, Christian's quest turns into a rescue mission. There is no one better to help him than the betrayer himself, shipbuilding magnate Edmund Montague. Christian plans to steal Edmund's private luxury vessel to sail there, and the necklace his father paid for with his life to buy his freedom. Accidentally kidnapping the man's spoiled daughter is just a lucky accident, and Christian enjoys the many opportunities he finds to annoy her. Unfortunately, she finds as many ways, if not more, to annoy him right back. Adriana Montague prayed for a way to escape her impending marriage to an arrogant and conceited man she doesn't love, but never expected it to come in the form of a vengeful thief who steals her ship and kidnaps her. Christian blames Adriana's father for his family's misfortunes, and boldly claims he's robbing her and sailing to South America! But Adriana has a few tricks up her sleeve, and though she's glad to be granted a temporary reprieve from her dreaded wedding, she's not about to let their voyage resemble a pleasure cruise. Contributor Bio:  Bradley, Ava Ava Bradley has a vivid imagination. As a teenager she thought she'd write a book, have Stephen King-like fame, and buy a big house for her family in Woodside Hills (where today you can't find a fixer-upper for under a million dollars). Reality sank in fast and the term "starving artist" took on personal meaning, but that didn't stop Ava from writing the stories spinning through her imagination. She won the Golden Heart award for best unpublished fiction, was nominated for an Eppie, and has since hit the USA TODAY bestseller list. For more contemporary romance with a dash of paranormal and edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense, visit her website www.avabradley.com where you can sign up for her newsletter. Subscribers learn about new releases first, and get notified when a book goes on sale for free.