Bastard - audiobook

Jeannette Boucher, a young French beauty from a family left penniless by the revolution, must marry against her will to save them all from ruin. But almost immediately after the vows are spoken, she learns that her old English husband is impotentand in his desire for an heir, he plans to compromise her in the worst way. Determined to escape such a fate, she stows away on one of His Majestys frigates. But a woman alone is in constant danger.To Lieutenant Treynor, honor means everything. Born a bastard to a wayward marquise, Lieutenant Crawford Treynor was given to a poor farmer to raise and was maltreated until he ran away to join the Royal Navy. Treynor is determined to prove hes as good as any other man and rise to captain his own frigate. But once he finds Jeannette aboard The Tempest he must decide whether to return her to the man he knows would abuse heror risk everything, even his life, to keep her safe.