The year is 1777. As the brooding mists of war settle over a stark American battlefield, Captain Ritcherd Buchanan yearns for his native England—and for Kyrah Payne, the woman he loves. Wounded and disheartened, he eventually returns home, only to have Kyrah torn cruelly away from him and deported for a crime she didn’t commit. Desperate to bring her home, he joins a band of privateers and finds himself embracing the American patriot cause—a cause he’d once sworn to defeat. All alone in a country at war, Kyrah becomes a victim of the breach between her own impoverished circumstances and the aristocratic upbringing of the man she loves. They had been best friends and confidants for more than half her life, but now she wonders if Ritcherd will ever be able to find her—or if he’ll even try. And she fears that the chasm between their worlds can never be bridged.

When Captain Ritcherd Buchanan finally finds Kyrah, the woman he loves, on the other side of the Atlantic, they are still a very long way from the idyllic life that both had dreamed of. In a world turned inside out by war, treachery, and his own deep hatred for the evil Peter Westman, who had married Kyrah under false pretenses and viciously abused her, Ritcherd tumbles into an emotional maelstrom that uproots the anger and bitterness of his callous and aristocratic upbringing. The situation is further complicated by evidence that Captain Garret, his closest and truest friend, has fallen for Kyrah. Through the course of uncovering long-buried secrets, Ritcherd discovers an entirely new perspective on his unique bond with Garret, who has his own score to settle with Peter Westman. In the end, the truth and its consequences are staggering.

Ritcherd and Kyrah Buchanan have settled into an idyllic marriage, and life is good. But then a sudden tragedy hurls Ritcherd into a maelstrom of grief and fury that could tear them viciously apart. Menacing ghosts from his childhood don't help—and neither does a treason investigation that threatens to send Garret and Ritcherd to the gallows.

In a rush of heart-stopping adventure, this thrilling continuation of the Buchanan Saga begins as a member of Garret Wentworth’s sailing crew is killed under mysterious circumstances, and Garret himself visits the man’s daughter in America to deliver the unfortunate news. Brandy Ashton instantly takes Garret’s breath away, but he just as quickly learns that her heart is already taken by none other than a philandering cad who is the mastermind behind a worldwide smuggling operation, with Brandy in the center as an unwitting pawn. As Garret, smitten by this beautiful, courageous, and good-hearted woman, fights to protect her from a danger she doesn’t understand, he prays she will hear the truth her heart is trying to tell her—before it’s too late. In a fierce battle between good and evil, Garret and those he loves lay their very lives on the line, and a tragic end could come at any moment. After years of searching for his soul mate, and then finding her, has he come this far only to lose it all in a single catastrophic moment?

Timothy Wentworth has devoted his life to keeping his cousin Jayce Buchanan out of trouble. The two men aimlessly sail the world on a trade ship in an attempt to forget the heartbreak and losses of the past, but Timothy wishes that Jayce would at least stay sober. From the Caribbean to the ports of young America, he can do nothing but follow Jayce from one tavern to another, continuously stepping between his cousin and his path of self-destruction. Jayce is given marvelous incentive to take control of his life when he meets the bewitching Megan O’Leary and her young daughter, Elizabeth. He agrees to give them passage home to Ireland, mostly because he wants to get to know this woman better, never imagining the danger that follows her and how the lives of everyone on board the Phoenix are about to change forever. Katelyn O’Shaugnessy has been praying for years that her sister would come home to her, and that somehow Meg could help her handle their father and his deteriorating mind, and also to save the inn that is her only means of survival. But when the answer to her prayers shows up in the form of two men who have risked everything to reunite her family, Kate’s own past comes back to haunt her. As she attempts to look past the years and hardships that have come between her and her sister, she becomes entangled in the dangerous web of Meg’s making that cannot be undone without putting lives on the line. The Captain’s Rose is a long-awaited volume by master storyteller Anita Stansfield, a novel that explores the nature of human relationships while at the same time carries the reader through a nineteenth-century adventure of murder and betrayal, intrigue and treachery. This is a book that will touch your heart and take your breath away!