In Norfolk in 1808, an independent widow falls for the Swedish naval captain billeted in her home, even as the secret dispatches he carries draws a ruthless enemy ever closer.
Three years after her husband's death, Margaret Clevering has built a quiet, independent life at Hawthorne Grange. She manages the estate herself, answers to no husband and expects no great change - until officers from the Royal Navy arrive with an unusual request.
Captain Elias Nyström of the Royal Swedish Navy must be hidden outside Great Yarmouth while he waits for passage home. He is burdened by war and carrying diplomatic dispatches he cannot allow to fall into enemy hands. Hawthorne is meant to be no more than a temporary refuge.
Instead, as autumn approaches, Margaret and Elias find themselves drawn together. The attraction neither intended becomes harder to deny - just as a Russian agent begins closing in on Elias and the secrets he carries.
The danger will eventually pass. Elias's duty will not. And when the summons comes ordering him to return to Sweden, Margaret faces loving a man whose life belongs partly to the sea – and losing him to it.
The Swedish Captain is an historical romance featuring love after loss, a determined hero, and wartime danger,
