The Pirate

The Pirate by Jayne Ann Krentz. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780263771053.

Reality was much more satisfying.Katherine Inskips ideal man didnt exist in this century. Nevertheless, her dreams and the books she wrote were dominated by a swashbuckling pirate. Shed never imagined shed encounter him in the flesh ... until she met Jared Hawthorne.Owner of the South Seas island where Kate was unwinding, Jared could have stepped off the pages of a historical romance. In almost every way he was her perfect fantasy — bold, dashing, domineering .... But then Kate began to suspect that Jared had something more in common with his piratical ancestors—something that wasnt at all "by the book ...."