title: Another Vow
author: Lajoyce Martin
description: When nineteen-year-old Phyllis Hawkins learns of the marriage that her father arranged for her, relegating her to loveless, hopeless future, she flees her fome on the farm and goes to the city to fend for herself.<br><br>Past a score of dashed hopes and disappointments, she is able to make a better life for herself, overcoming the poverty and ignorance that once stalked her path. However, the better life costs her some rash vows.<br><br>Will she keep her vow never to marry, or will her heart call upon her to make yet "Another Vow?"
zlib_text: _**T**_ o British privateer Ethan Sharpe, Grace Chastain is nothing but a pawn
  for vengeance against Harmon Jeffries, the traitor responsible for his brutal
  years in prison. Believing Grace to be Jeffries’ mistress, he plans to
  humiliate his enemy by seducing her.  
    
  
   _ **G**_ race fears her priceless heirloom necklace has begun to live up to
  its curse when Captain Sharpe makes her his prisoner aboard his schooner.
  Defiantly she resists his coarse advances, and suspects there is more to this
  complex sea captain than his brooding anger and silent accusations.  
    
  
   _ **B**_ ut Ethan quickly realizes that she is not the wicked woman he
  imagined her to be. Grace is as headstrong as she is lovely, and the battle of
  wills that ensues weakens his resolve. Now Ethan must decide: can he settle
  the demons of his past _and_ follow the destiny his heart commands?
  
    
  
  “Martin adroitly balances the passion and intrigue in this fast-paced
  Regency.”  
  — _Publishers Weekly_ on _The Bride’s Neckla