The Captain of All Pleasures
by Kresley Cole

In her exhilarating debut novel, Kresley Cole captures the drama, passion, and boundless adventure of the high seas—as one fiery lass finds herself caught in a tide of torrid romance.

Raised as a free spirit aboard her American sea captain father's majestic clipper ship, willful Nicole Lassiter has never encountered an obstacle she couldn't overcome—until she meets Captain Derek Sutherland. His sizzling kisses leave her longing, but after they share a night of passion, his subsequent disdain makes her blood boil. Nicole vows to take her revenge—by helping her father beat Sutherland in a high-stakes competition: the Great Circle Race from England to Australia.

Nicole's scheme is thrown overboard after her father is wrongly imprisoned, yet she remains undaunted—taking to the high seas with her father's ship. But a storm wrecks her plans, and she finds herself a virtual prisoner aboard Sutherland's vessel. And while her mind tells her she should escape, her body urges her to surrender...

Kresley Cole's Bio

Previously a competitive athlete and professional coach, Kresley now concentrates on writing romance for Pocket Books.

Since her first novel was published in 2003, Cole has sold a total of seven books and one novella in two different subgenres. Her first book, THE CAPTAIN OF ALL PLEASURES (Pocket Books, July 2003) was a 2003 Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award Winner and her second, THE PRICE OF PLEASURE (Pocket, July 2004), was an RT Top Pick. Cole will be following her highly acclaimed "Pleasure" historicals with a Highlander trilogy, as well as a new paranormal romance series, both with Pocket Books.

IF YOU DARE, the first book in the MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy, was released in May 2005, with IF YOU DESIRE and IF YOU DECEIVE to follow in 2006. The paranormal romances will be released between the historicals with the first, A HUNGER LIKE NO OTHER, to come in April 2006 and the second, NO REST FOR THE WICKED in October 2006.

Kresley now writes full time and is a mom to two marvelous labs and one feckless cat.