Captive Heart

by Linda Lee Chaikin

Book Overview

Devora's pleasant life assisting her Uncle Barnabas with his patients as she awaits her marriage to her beau Edward is drastically altered when the Countess of Radburn announces that she must marry a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565077555
• ISBN13: 9781565077553
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Engaging, wonderful, exciting,and romantic

I really enjoyed this book! Linda Chaikin did a fantastic job on writing about pirates, buccaneers, the Spanish Inquisition, life in Spain and conflicts that those people faced back then. The main characters Devora and Bruce were well-developed and realistic. I tried to put myself in Devora's slippers to discover how it felt to have a mother that abandoned me, then all of a sudden show up and turn my life upside-down. I really admire someone like Devora who uses her Christian faith to sustain her during her trials. I would like a husband like Bruce who unlike his father is a gallant, dashing, and somewhat roguish man, with a teasing nature. I wonder how it would feel to be a half-English and half-Spanish especially when the two countries were at odds with one another and to be rejected as a little boy by his ruthless father. I definitely going to read this series more than once!

Colorful and Engaging!

A friend gave me this book and I loved it. I hope one day to write as well as Linda does. Regardless of whether or not she got the crinoline skirt part right for the time setting, this book was very engaging. Imagine being a young woman in love and being swept away by a mother--who's barely been a part of your life--who takes you to a place that's foreign to you, in order that you can marry a Spanish don to further the family? Well that's exactly what Devora's mother does. Out of the blue, Catherina Radburn shows up in Barbados to take Devora away from her beloved home and uncle, and the man she wants to marry--so that she can marry a man of her families choosing. Someone she's never met! Besides that, Devora wants to work alongside her uncle in Barbados. Her world is suddenly turned upside down, her faith tested. Will it sustain her--even when she's thrown into a world she knows little about and toward a man she has decided in her heart that she wants nothing to do? Unknowingly, Devora has already met that man, only he's going by a different name and she is unwillingly drawn to him. Will she learn his true identity and will she find the strengh within to follow her heart? You'll have to read the book to find out! And I heartily recommend it!

A very captivating book!

I love Linda Chaikin books. I could barely stand to put this book down long enough to wash the dishes. My opinion is that this is a worthwhile book to read, if you're a romantic or like buccaneers. :O)

You have to read this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You gotta read this one!!!! It's almost the same thing as the Bucaneers series and they're awesome! Devora doesn't know that Captain Bruce Hawkins is Don Nicklas Valentin, the guy she has to marry. I think that really exciting. I have read most of Linda Chaikin's books and I like her writings the best!!!! Keep it up Linda!!!!!!

Loved it!

Just like all of Linda Chaikin's books this one is a great story. Devora is being sent away from the life she has always known to marry a man that she has never met and has no interest in. She wants to get out of it any way possible and return to her uncle Barnabas in Bridgetown, Barbados where she could help him with his patients and marry the man she believed would be the perfect husband for her. While she waited in Spain to meet the man she was supposed to marry, she got caught up in a situation with Pirates. She was being drawn to the well known Captain Bruce Hawkins even though she didn't want to admit it to herself. I think Linda's writings are all really great! This is just another of those examples.