West Coast Review of Books...

"Bound by the Heart captures the reader's imagination from the beginning and holds it to the very end as Marsha Canham intertwines romance with adventure in the Caribbean of the 1800's.

Summer Cambridge, the young and beautiful heroine, is on her way from England to Barbados with her ten-year-old brother, Michael. Their ship is wrecked by a storm and by all accounts they are the only survivors. Afloat on a flimsy raft, Summer sustains herself with thoughts of her betrothed, Captain Bennet Winfield. Their marriage, arranged with the help of her father, the British governor of Barbados, is to take place on that island in a few weeks.

Summer and Michael are saved from certain death by the pirate Morgan Wade, who takes an instant liking to her. Summer resists, but Morgan will have his way. Summer and Michael are eventually delivered safely to their father in Barbados; Summer marries Bennet as planned; and within nine months they have a little girl who looks remarkably like Morgan Wade.

From here the plot thickens. War breaks out between Great Britain and the United States. Summer discovers that Bennet is not the sweet cavalier she had imagined but a villain who is interested only in her father's wealth and power. After much mystery and political intrigue, in the end Morgan turns out to be not just any pirate, but a direct descendent of a British lord. Morgan eventually claims Summer and his little daughter and, after a vicious sea battle, Morgan and Summer enter that 'happily ever after' stage.

Bound by the Heart has the right mix of romance, history, and adventure to become a prime candidate for a television mini-series, complete with a beautiful heroine, a virile pirate, and lots of old-fashioned swash-buckling adventure."