Savina Roxeter, her family and her fiancé are traveling from Jamaica back to England, much to Savina's displeasure. She dreads leaving Jamaica, which has come to feel like home, for the stuffy aristocratic lifestyle her impending marriage will require. She surprises Anthony Heywood, her fiancé's secretary, who learns that Savina is a well-read woman, not the insipid creature he thought her to be. On their journey, Savina's strength is immediately tested when their ship is commandeered by Americans and they become part of a castaway camp. The duration of their stay and their rescue shape their futures forever in Donna Simpson's Lady Savage. Simpson evokes deep and powerful emotions and draws them out with incredible accuracy. What a reward when Anthony does indeed win his Lady Savage. The reader will jump for joy when these two find the happiness they so deserve. Romantic Times - 4 stars!!

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Product Description

For Savina Roxeter, the voyage from Jamaica to England is the beginning of her future: a return to London to marry her intended, the estimable Lord Gaston-Reade, and the very proper business of household and heirs under the watchful eye of the ton's elite. But when a wild storm blows the ship off course, Savina, her father, her fiance, and his secretary, Anthony Heywood, among others, are stranded on a Caribbean island as primitive and unpeopled as it is beautiful. Suddenly, it is survival that matters rather than Almack's vouchers or the fashionable cut of a coat. And it is Anthony who astounds Savina with his skill, his resourcefulness, and an elemental strength that makes her breathless with desire. In London, a match between a lady and a man who works for his living would be unthinkable. But in this verdant paradise, they are equals in every way...

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1659094 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Customer Reviews

An Interesting Regency Romance!!
Most Regency romances do not take place on a deserted Caribbean island. Well, this one does and the setting and characterization is so unique that it entertained this reader from the start.

Savina Roxeter is leaving Jamaica for the first time in many years in order to return to England with her fiance Lord Gaston-Reade. She is not happy about leaving her island but knows that it's not up to her to choose her fate. It's up to her soon to be husband. That is until their ship is blown off course and taken by an American navel captain. He see realizes that Savina has a good head on her shoulders and it tickles him to vex Lord Gaston-Reade. He offers the Savina the choice of choosing their collective fate. None of the other members of the party (her father, her soon to be sister-in-law, her fiance, her maid, Savina's maid, and Mr. Anthony Heywood, Lord Gaston-Reade's secretary) can believe that their fate is in her female hands. Once put to shore on a remote island what will come of them all?

Anthony is surprised by how wrong he had Savina figured out. The lady is smart, friendly, and willing to get her hands dirty. If they survive it will be in large part due to her work. But another problem has come up. He finds his employers fiancee more than attractive. She has woken his desire and the feelings that they each feel for the other can't leave the island...or can they?

Ms. Simpson has penned a period romance that doesn't really fit the period. She has taken a regency miss and given her some backbone. A nice change from the norm. This was a fast read and one that offers a different setting, different circumstances, and as a result a different read for the fans of Regency Romance.

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Wonderful characters; enticing locale
Donna Simpson is one of my favorite authors. Each book is different and contains wonderful characters. I am only missing a couple of her recent books and even have one of her first (perhaps her very first) books that is typewritten spiral bound from a very small publishing company. I even had an e-book she wrote until it was lost in a computer crash! Anyway ... just pumping you up to encourage you read her books!

The uniqueness of the locale is what makes this book so unusual. Another reviewer mentions it. The comparison between the warm sunny Jamaica and the tropical island our intrepid group is stranded on against a cool and foggy London, England is well written. The storyline (briefly) is this. Savina who has spent 11 years of her life in Jamaica is returning with her father to England. His tour of duty as some sort of government official is over. Her mother has been long dead and her father wanted to see his daughter married and well provided for. After meeting Lord Gaston-Reade, who appeared to have a like mind and progressive attitudes towards running his plantation, she accepts his marriage proposal. But appearances are deceiving. A small family group of Savina, her father, Gaston-Reade, his sister Venture, her fiancé William Barker, Zazu, a native Jamaican and more friend than maid to Savina, Annie, Venture's maid and Anthony Heywood. Gaston-Reade's secretary set out for England. A storm blows the ship off course and it is taken over by an American Naval vessel whose own ship is listing badly. The captain asks Savina to decide the passenger's fate - pledge allegiance to the USA, sail as prisoners of the vessel or be left on an island. Savina considers carefully and decides they should be left on an island.

The captain puts them on an uninhabited island with supplies and promises to notify the English of their stranding. The castaways go through all the normal trauma of disordered life. The ineptness of some is shown and the courage of others comes forward. I like that the author did not make the status change unbelievable. All rose to the occasion well ... each using their own skills to make survival bearable. This was not some "Lord of the Flies" stranding. As Gaston-Reade reveals more of his nature, Savina realizes they will be unhappy as a married couple. There is also a growing attraction between her and the secretary Tony. Are there other romances brewing as well?

The castaways are rescued and the remainder of the book deals with how they are greeted and feted by society. Savina's father becomes a celebrity of sort while Savina is treated differently and called "Lady Savage" due to her unkempt appearance when rescued! Will she marry Gaston-Reade after all? All the characters are well-fleshed with many wonderful situations and stories. My description barely touches the surface. I have not read a book so compelling in quite a while. There is not much villainy (which I like) but just finely drawn personalities, some of which you admire and in the end you may pity. I hope there is a story for Lady Venture who is rather an unhappy woman with has an air of mystery, no matter her spoiled nature. A wonderful book, perhaps somewhat like others of this genre or "castaway" type writings, and I loved it!