To Cross An Unbound Sea Book 1: Heart's Blood
Everyone knows that Captain Issac McCallister lost his mind in the desert, after five years as a slave in Barbary.
It is 1803, and the old Puritan village of Salem, once known only for the dark horrors of its witch trials, is now a cosmopolitan seaport and the richest city in America. But in many ways, Salem is still a village.
Issac is a damaged man, looking for a reason to go on living.
He finds it when he meets Eleanor Hampton, his step-brother's daughter, an eccentric young painter living in genteel poverty on his estate along with her mother and sister. Despite the long-standing bitterness between the two families, Isaac is bewitched by this determined, gifted woman, while Eleanor is unexpectedly drawn to him. He's not the man she expected— no coarse merchant prince who could reduce the beauty of art to the banality of dry goods. There is a gallantry in Isaac that couldn't be snuffed out by the hell of Algerian slavery. But his sudden proposal of marriage sets dark forces out of the past into motion, resulting in a stunning betrayal and a brutal murder.
Now, as her passion for her enigmatic husband consumes her, Eleanor finds there's no danger she's unwilling to face to save him from the hangman.
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UNBOUND SEA BOOK 2: NIGHT'S BLOOM
COMING OCTOBER 2025
Amelia never meant to fall in love with someone she could never have...
Book Two, Night's Bloom, follows the Hampton sisters of Salem to the other side of the Atlantic, in France, where the young Napoleon Bonaparte is about to be crowned emperor. During the McCallister's summer sojourn in Paris, Eleanor becomes deeply troubled by the discovery of young, headstrong Amelia's painful adolescent love for her husband's closest friend, the elegant French diplomat François Déguerre, a man entirely unsuitable.
When the idealistic American girl is sucked into the dangerous world of French politics, an exasperated François must rescue Amelia from an ugly riot on the Esplanade des Invalides. It will lead to an unexpected night of seduction that changes the course of their lives, in an adventure that extends from the ballrooms of the Empire to the palace chambers of Morocco, across the high seas, and into the deadly waters of the Barbary Coast.
"Sexy, sweeping historical fiction with world-stage intrigue... VonKannon impressively encapsulates the era’s fast-shifting political winds... At the core of the narrative is a series of satisfying lovemaking scenes that effectively develop this appealing and rather swashbuckling couple’s physical and emotional bonds." - Kirkus Reviews
UNBOUND SEA BOOK 3: A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES
COMING FALL 2025
Finalist in 'Heart's Through History' Best Unpublished Novel Award; Winner of the Legend Award for Best Character!
FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS: THE HONOR OF HIS NAME
FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS: THE HONOR OF HIS NAME
Sometimes a marriage of convenience isn't as convenient as it sounds . . .
When her tiny duchy is threatened by the nations at war around her, Chantal Saint-Marcq, Duchess of Valenciére, is obligated by duty to marry a cold and distant stranger, Major Tristan Duroc, hero of Austerlitz and power player in Napoleon's game of Empire.
Two willful people collide in a bitter wedding night, and a pair of enemies are born, living in the cold intrigue of a political marriage. But when their conflict skirts the edge of a dangerous passion, Chantal will discover that even a duchess must fight for her happiness, or risk being left with nothing but the loneliness of duty and The Honor of His Name.
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The Acolyte: "An erotic journey across the high seas!"
"These were the journals of a remarkable woman, a woman of wit and indomitable spirit..."
Hidden for two centuries, the diary of a sexual adventuress reveals the remarkable life of The Acolyte, Lady Létice Marie de Saint-Juste, the willful daughter of a wealthy planter on the island of Martinique. Young Létice is sent to Paris by her father, to be sheltered behind the high walls of a convent school.
But the vessel carrying her to France is captured by Salé privateers, and Létice is set on an altogether different journey, into the alien world of the Ottoman Seraglio in Constantinople. She becomes Zarqa, the Blue-Eyed Woman, and her training for a new life in the harem begins. It will part a silken curtain to reveal a world unimagined. In a single, shattering night she becomes ikbal, a favorite, and from these heights she will learn the fearful weight of power within the Seraglio.
Hardened by tragedy, Létice escapes, back to a world that now seems just as alien to her. Lost in the elegant salons of Paris and London, she abandons the Old World for America, arriving in its capital of sudden, glittering wealth, New York, where she’s determined to build a new life. But her well-laid plans have not counted on Jack McClain, powerful, playful, contemptuous of any rules but his own. Jack is a gamesman of unmatched skill, and as their contest unfolds, this Acolyte will finally find the tender Master who will teach her how little submission resembles defeat.
Caution: This book contains explicit sexual encounters and is recommended for adults only.
File Size: 723 KB
Print Length: 305 pages
Publisher: Blushing Books (June 25, 2020)
Publication Date: June 25, 2020
Sold by: Amazon.com Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B08BW63C7P
Kindle: $4.99
Paperback: $13.99
Non-Fiction by Alice VonKannon & Christopher Hodapp
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