I was going through the Avon Ladies list seeing who all I still read and still have to be read and came across Alexandra Benedict. She was a debut author last year and I don’t have the book.

Sinfully decadent Anthony Kennington, Viscount Hastings, lives for pleasure and he rues the day when he must wed and produce an heir. But he is not a man who runs from danger, and when he chances upon an enchanting gypsy maiden in the woods hounded by bandits, he leaps to her defense. Now, surely, there is but one place for the injured and unconscious lovely to properly recuperate: in his bed.

Sabrina is shocked when she awakens in an opulent bedchamber, nursed in every way by a dashing gentleman. She knows she must leave the haven of Anthony’s home at once, even though her life is still in grave danger – though a different kind of peril awaits her in the viscount’s arms. If Sabrina surrenders to this handsome rogue, she will be an outcast. Yet does she dare ignore the future that’s written on his palm – the promise of a shared lifetime of love and ecstasy?

Anyone read this? Good? Bad? It looks like she is moving from the gypsy life to the pirate life in her next novel, Too Great a Temptation

Damian Westmore, the notorious “Duke of Rogues,” lives for pleasure – until the day his brother dies at the hands of pirates. Abandoning the libertine life to pursue revenge, Damian finds the criminals he seeks, and joins their crew in disguise, waiting for the chance to strike the brigands down. But he never imagined there would be a woman onboard – or that the stunning siren would inflame the very passions Damian swore to resist until his brother’s death was avenged.

Fiery Mirabelle Hawkins longs for the freedom of the high seas – so she stows away on her brother’s pirate ship at the first opportunity. But she finds something more exciting than chase and plunder: a bold, handsome, secretive sailor whose touch makes her tremble with desire . . . but whose love is a cutlass that could destroy all she holds dear.

sounds interesting…