The Captain of All Pleasures (2003) (edit title/settings)

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• Derek Sutherland: "Sixth Earl of Stanhope" - "Lord Stanhope" - "Derek Andrew Sutherland" - Over six feet and well built; Captain of the Southern Cross; Owner of the Peregrine Shipping Line; Has thick black hair and gray eyes flecked with blue
• Nicole Lassiter: "Nic" - "Nicole Christina Lassiter" - "Lady Christina" - Twenty years old; Has red and gold hair with dark blue eyes
• Jason Lassiter: Captain of the Bella Nicola; Nicole's father; Has a red beard and red hair
• Laurel Banning Lassiter: Nicole's mother; Was a noblewoman of English birth; A lovely, fair-haired young woman
• Amanda Sutherland: Derek's mother; Has gray eyes
• Grant Sutherland: "Viscount Anderleigh" - Derek's younger brother; Twenty-eight years old; Has thick black hair and blue eyes; Derek's estate manager
• William Sutherland: Was Derek's older brother
• Chancey: Lassiter's first mate; A big, blustering Irishman; Like a second father to Nicole
• Evelyn Banning: "Marchioness of Atworth" - Laurel's mother; Nicole's grandmother; Had blonde hair, now gone gray with dark eyes
• Chapman: Elderly butler of Atworth House
• Clankson: Owner of Clankson Emporiums
• Jebediah Grolly: "Jeb" - Derek's bosun; Keeps the ship running smoothly; Has salt-and-pepper hair
• Edward Dearbourne: "Lord Belmont" - Man looking for his family
• Lady Sarah: Member of the London ton
• Dennis: Helmsman on the Bella Nicola
• Maria Delgado: Madam of a bordello in Recife; In her early forties; Has thick black hair and dark eyes
• Juliette: Prostitute
• Sasha: Indian woman working for Maria
• Berto: Maria's muscle
• Dr. Bigsby: Surgeon on Derek's ship; A slim man with light-blond hair
• Jimmy: Derek's cabin boy
• Serena Traywick: "Aunt Serena" - Derek's aunt; Amanda's sister
• Earl of Allenton: Evelyn's friend
• Lady Crossman: Member of the London ton
• Lady Hanson: Member of the London ton
• Bainbridge: Member of the London ton
• Lydia Sutherland: Derek's wife; Has blue-black hair with green eyes and a voluptuous figure
• Lord Tallywood: A pale, doughy-fleshed man; Captain of the Desirade
• Pretty: Has a purplish, bubbled scar that curves over his forehead and down through a vacant eye socket
• Clive: Has a pie-plate face, round and stamped down except for the bulbous protrusion of his lips
• Pixie: Evelyn's pug

Quotes edit see section history

• “A man can change, but only when he can start lookin’ forward to the days ahead. If ye dread every mornin’ cause it’s a new day, then ye stop carin’.”

  Chancey

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• “A man can change, but only when he can start lookin’ forward to the days ahead. If ye dread every mornin’ cause it’s a new day, then ye stop carin’.”

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• “She could do better, but could any man love her more than you do?”

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• “Because the father saved my life, and the daughter saved my soul.”

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• he wouldn’t try to diminish her passion and fire because he craved it. Nicole, so full of impulse and mischief, needed the reassurance of strength of a iron-willed man. She also needed his dark sensuality to sate her.

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• “No, I want you…. I want to finally feel you inside me.”

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• He knew she was a fighter. What he didn’t know was why he caught himself almost pulling for her.

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• She knew many sailors never learned to swim. Purposely. Because being trapped on the open sea, much less in the sea, was worse than death.

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• “Well, there was a pleasing sense of irony about it, yes,” she said.

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• Every morning, it became harder to leave her and their unspoken — and, on her side, unconscious — truce. When he folded her to his chest, she welcomed him, even unwittingly moving closer to him.

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• He acted hungry for her, as if he couldn’t control his reaction to her, and thinking of that made her hunger for him.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London, England: Year 1856
• The Mermaid: A tap house in London
• Paris, France
• Sydney, Australia
• Southern Cross: Derek Sutherland's ship
• Bella Nicola: Jason Lassiter's ship
• Atworth House
• Belmont Court
• Whitestone: One of Derek's estates
• Mayfair: in London
• Recife, Brazil
• Bay of Biscay's
• Cape of Good Hope, Africa
• Casa de Delgado: Bordello in Recife
• Cape Town, South Africa: "Tavern of the Seas"
• Griffin: Another of Jason Lassiter's ships
• Liverpool, England
• Gretna Green
• Bickham Inn
• Oceania
• Keveral: Grant Sutherland's ship

Organizations edit see section history

• Peregrine Shipping Line: Derek & Grant Sutherland's company
• Lassiter Shipping: Jason Lassiter's company
• Clankson Emporiums: Add a description of this organization.

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• Great Circle Race: Race from London to Sydney

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by The Price of Pleasure.

Preceded by Blackthorne's Bride, and followed by White Mist.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kresley Cole (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2135 vol. 11
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexual content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Cole, Kresley
• Books › Romance › Historical
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Kresley Cole's Website

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