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Trade Wind

An American missionary encounters disease, revolution, intrigue, and a renegade slave trader in a faraway land in this classic historical adventure.

When Boston bluestocking Hero Athena Hollis travels to Zanzibar to visit her uncle, an American consul, she arrives filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds. She believes that slavery is wrong and is determined to do what she can to stop it. But she soon finds that maintaining her ideals is not so easy.

Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd, and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make of him—and of her feelings for him?

“Irresistibly romantic.” —Cosmopolitan

M. M. Kaye

M.M. Kaye was born in India and spent much of her childhood and adult life there. She became world famous with the publication of her monumental bestseller, The Far Pavilions. She is also the author of the bestselling Trade Wind and Shadow of the Moon, a series of mystery novels, and a three volume autobiography. She lived in England.

St. Martin’s Press