Marsha Bauer: 3 books

When raven-haired Ivy Woodruff is captured by a pirate ship fall 1814 in the Chesapeake Bay, and is forced to bunk with rakishly handsome Drake Jordan to protect her from the rough crew, she vows she will not end up like her mother: ravished then discarded by a notorious pirate, left to raise the...

When blond and innocent Melody Grayum--parted from her bodyguard and hunted by a killer--encounters a darkly handsome gunslinger while lost on a northern California trail, she reluctantly accepts his offer to share his campfire for the night. But when she realizes Clay Weston thinks she's a lightskirt,...

When Marisa is abducted from a mercantile shop in coastal Virginia and finds herself aboard a smuggling ship, her sole thought is to stay alive. Realizing her only hope is to stall for time, she performs a striptease, hoping to mesmerize the men, then dive overboard. She never guessed her performance...