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BOOK BLURB:
Captured by the aggressive pirate captain of a Barbary corsair ship off the North African coast in the latter half of the eighteenth century, David Jordan faces a life of slavery of the worst kind when he is taken to the specialist markets of Tripoli. However, the enigmatic man who finally buys him is not all what David expects.

Robert Charteris has a very personal reason for fighting against the iniquity of slavery and, in disguise, witnesses the disposal of the slave cargo from a captured English ship and, for the first time in fifteen years, Charteris feels an interest in another man.

His decision to rescue the young man has repercussions he could never have expected in this tale of high passion and forbidden love.

BOOK REVIEW:
This is a story about David who was on a ship that was captured by pirates in 1760. The captain of the ship, Malik, was a very mean guy. I wanted to hate him for what he had done to David. Enter Robert. He saw all the slaves come into port and took a liking to David at once. He had to find some way to buy him as a slave as much as it was against everything he stood for.

David's character I thought was actually kind of whiny. If he didn't get his way, he would pout and get all upset. After reading the book for a while, I fell in love with David. He was a kind generous person to a fault. It took some time for him to fall in love with Robert. He'd had never been with another man before and Robert was his first.

Stevie's description of the love scenes between the two was phenomenal, though some of the language that was used I felt was more suited to modern day than back in the 1760's. Some of the phrases were those which are common now, such as "got to have you now" or "need you now," things such as that. I'm not sure they would have used those phrases back then.

To me the real hero of the story was Malik, the man I wanted to hate from the beginning. The way he treated David before he was sold was horrible. When it was later learned how Malik got to be the way he was, everything fell into place. As the story unfolded, you learned that under his rough exterior, Malik had a heart of gold.

Robert's character was very well written. I could feel what he felt and could almost hear him when he spoke. I liked the fact that he did not push David into anything he wasn't ready for. His compassion was beyond reproach.

I think the story of Malik could be told on its own, from the time he met up with Robert to the time he became a pirate and so on. That would make a very interesting story. Kudos to Stevie Woods

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