The Pursuit of Pleasure Author:Elizabeth Essex Lizzie Paxton's dram in life is to be a widow--if only she could skip the wedding and the husband. When her childhood friend Captain James Marlowe proposes a marriage in name only, she accepts, knowing she'll have the independence she craves once he sets sail. Though James is the only man Lizzie trusts, she doesn't trust the scintillating desi... more »re he evokes in her.« less