sun

We are headed to the Caribbean in December. I would like a good sexy historical romance novel including the islands, pirates, all that adventurous stuff. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good author? Thanks, Sun

curiousx

Try Sandra Gulland's fictional trilogy on the life of the Empress Josephine which starts off on her home island of Martinique. <BR> <BR>Avoid Michener's book, 'Caribbean', (turgid, boring) <BR> <BR>Not historical but killingly funny/accurate (according to a friend of mine who runs a small Caribbean hotel) is Wouk's 'Don't Stop the Carnival'.

Abby

Wind from the Carolinas!!!! (Sorry, not sure about the author.) <BR> <BR>A sexy, fun, historical romance about a family displaced from the early US to the Bahamas. Not sure how historically accurate it is, but it certainly was a great read before I went to the Caribbean.

anon

Your husband is one LUCKY guy. <BR> <BR>I recommend "Bubblehead on the Beach".

X

Don't know exactly what you like to read but I love the author Constance O'Day Flannery. She writes all time travel romances. Time-Kissed Destiny is a great vacation one - heroine goes scuba diving in Bermuda and when she surfaces she's gone back in time and of course meets a hunk from that time period...I love all her books!

KT

Nora Roberts' "The Reef" is by no means historical, but it is a great contemporary pirate/adventure novel that takes place on and around St. Kitts/Nevis.

tivertonhouse

READING LIST:Can't help you with bodice-rippers,but here's an abbreviated list of what we recommend to our Jamaica- <BR>bound guests. <BR> <BR>Short stories -- White Man in the Tree by Mark Kurlansky; Easy in the Islands by Bob Shachokis <BR> <BR>Novels -- The True History of Paradise by Marguerite Cezair-Thompson; The Pagoda by Patricia Powell; Hotel Paradiso by a canadian author whose name escapes me; Russell Banks' novels --The Rule of the Bone,Continental Drift, The Book of Jamaica;Fire in the Canes by Glenville Lovett;the sexiest video on the islands is not Dr.No, How Stella Got Her Groove Back or Dancehall Queen --but ironically, an Austrilian film, the pre-quel to Jane Eyre (remember the mad woman in the tower...)called WIDE SARGASSO SEA. Enjoy.

Sun

WOW! great ideas! I won't make it to the book store until next weekend so please keep the ideas coming. I do not mind if it is not historically accurate. But, I do love a good story. <BR>Ladies you know what I mean... <BR>Thanks, Sun <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>

Angela

The best historical romance/suspense writer in my mind is Victoria Holt. All her books are period pieces (think 1800s or before) taking place usually in England. She did write two that had to do with the Caribbean as well. I think in one a young woman was traveling transatlantic to become a governess in America and became shipwrecked in the Caribbean and stowed away aboard a pirate ship. I think the title was something like Black Opal but at any rate Victoria Holt wrote it. These are not complete dime store trash either like a Harlequin romance. But on that end of the spectrum there is a book I am almost ashamed to say I like called "Raven" can't remember who wrote it. But girl grows up the daughter of a pirate and then takes her father's place as the captain of a pirate ship when he dies. HAve fun reading.

Sun

I beleive I read "Raven" years ago. Is Victoria Holt writing under a different name? THese are WONDERFUL ideas...Thanks... Sun