Love Me Marietta Author:Jennifer Wilde Sequel to Love's Tender Fury — English-born, copper-haired Marietta Danver, sold at auction in colonial America as punishment for a theft she didn't commit, has fallen in love with Derek Hawke, the plantation owner who bought her. She therefore has no interest in the persistent advances of the handsome New Orleans womanizer, Jeremy Bond. Derek ha... more »s promised to marry Marietta as soon as he returns to England to claim his title. But before they can set sail, Derek is viciously attacked by killers hired by his cousin, his rival for the family fortune. Marietta is then brutally ravished by Derek's attackers and sold to pirates. Meanwhile Jeremy Bond has not forgotten her. Still consumed with passion for the tantalizing Marietta, he vows to recue her no matter what the cost...« less