Flaming Rose

The year is 1739, and Lavinia Chancey is preparing for a final summer of freedom at the Meriden Park Estate at Westershire. Newly engaged to the handsome yet arrogant Elias Rutherford, she dreads the wedding which she knows will signal the end of her trips to the seaside and her youthful adoration for stories of adventure. But Lavinia could never have expected just how much the adventure would leave the page for her, and turn her life upside down.Several hundred miles away, the dreaded Flaming Rose turned sail for English shores. Captained by the more-mythical-than-not Maritza "The Thorn" Suarez, the crew is planning on a regular infiltration supply run to the Westershire arms stores, undetected and routine. But what awaits Maritza in Westershire is far less standard than she ever could have anticipated.As two worlds collide, sparks will fly, and not just of chaotic disruption. The resulting flame, though, will push both women to a point of no return, testing loyalties, duties, reputations, and boundaries, and send them careening straight off of it. For the first time in opposite lives, Lavinia and Maritza will face a timeless question: just how much would you sacrifice for love? extra tags: dual female leads, sapphic romance, english setting, semi-historically accurate (in that yes I do research, but I also have a vision that will stretch and supersede this sometimes)