Looking for a new life!
Discovery of Desire (London Explorers #2) by Susanne Lord The Fishing Fleet! Fascinatingly ironic! This is the term used by the local English for the women who came to India looking for husbands from the marriageable men employed by the East India Company. A not very complimentary description but historically young women did leave England in droves to far flung places where the Empire was present, gambling on opportunities they might never have had at home. One such young woman is Wilhelmina Adams who has accompanied her sister Emma. Seth Mayhew is on the same ship. He's an explorer, or as he terms it, a finder. Amongst his finds has been orchids from South America. But now he is searching for his missing sister, last heard from near the Tibetan border where a massacre occurred. Seth is not here to find a wife or fall in love with Mina whom he refers to as, 'His little officer quelling insubordination and giving orders. And always on h...