Come Be My Love by Patricia Watters

AN UNCONVENTIONAL LADY...
When Sarah Ashley arrives in Victoria, British Columbia to open a mercantile for the manufacture and sale of bloomer costumes, and free the women there from the bonds of archaic dress, she turns Governor Jonathan Cromwell's colony topsy turvy.

A ROGUE IN GENTLEMAN'S CLOTHING...
But while the stunning suffragette is intent on disrupting every facet of Jon Cromwell's life, it seems, he can't decide whether to seduce the young libertine into sweet submission, or send her away to preserve his colony, and his sanity.

A PROVINCIAL TOWN DIVIDED...
Dresses without corsets! Skirts without hoops! Unheard of! Something must be done about Sarah Ashley before the women of Victoria start abandoning home and hearth. Not so fast! Bloomer costumes are practical! Comfortable! Healthful. But everyone knows the woman left San Francisco under a cloud...

THE COLONIST'S FIERY EDITOR STIRRING THE CALDRON...
"Should Governor Cromwell show as much concern for the affairs of state as he does for the affairs of Miss Ashley, he would no doubt realize that Vancouver Island is facing a major political crisis..."

A MELTING POT OF TROUBLE IN ONE TIDY PACKAGE... SARAH ASHLEY

95,622 words

"A HIGHLY TALENTED NEW AUTHOR... A RISING STAR" Kathe Robin, Romantic Times

"SWEET... SEXY... LOADS OF FUN!" Kat Martin

"A DELIGHTFUL ROMP THAT BLOOMS WITH LOVE AND LAUGHTER." Shirl Henke