title: The Admiral's Penniless Bride
author:  Carla Kelly 
description: I started writing Regencies because of interest in the Napoleonic Wars. I like writing about warfare at sea and ordinary people of the British Isles, rather than lords and ladies. In my spare time I like to read British crime fiction and history, particularly the U.S. Indian Wars. I currently live in Utah. I'm a former park ranger, and double Rita Award and Spur Award winner. I have five interesting children and four grands. Favorite authors include Robert Crais and Richard Woodman.
zlib_text: “You need help. I need a wife. I don’t think I can make it any plainer.”
  
  “No, I suppose you cannot,” Sally murmured, but made one final attempt to make
  the man see reason. “Admiral, you know nothing about me. You truly don’t.” It
  was on the tip of her tongue to tell him, but she found she could not. Coward,
  she thought.
  
  He looked at her then, and his face was kind. “I know one thing—you haven’t
  yammered once about the weather. I suppose marriages have started on stranger
  footing.”
  
  “I suppose they have,” she agreed. “Very well, sir.”
  
    
  
  The Admiral’s Penniless Bride  
  Harlequin®Historical #1025—January 2011
  
  
  
  
  
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