Velvet Chains

Velvet Chains Paperback - Constance O'Banyon Author - Set in 1779 during the American Revolution, this tells the story of Lady Season Chatsworth, a young English beauty who fakes a tumble in the hay with the stable boy to avoid a dreaded arranged marriage. Her reputation in tatters, her father sends her away to America to marry her cousin, Sir Edmund Kensworthy, captain of His Majesty's Guards in New York. But her reputation as a loose woman, false though it may be, has followed her to the Colonies and both Edmund and his handsome friend Lucas Carrington act as if she is free with her favors, much to her chagrin. Meanwhile, there is an American privateer called "the Raven" terrorizing the British and winning the praise of the patriots. This is a great story of a worthy heroine who is constantly faced with the foibles of men who underestimate her. When she is captured by the Raven and held for exchange of an American prisoner, the adventure begins and Season finds herself in love with a man who takes her innocence and wears a mask.