Used book – The Passenger of the Virginia Prelud', Cooper Inglath

Stripped of her inheritance by a cynical husband who left her for another woman, Kate impulsively fled and found refuge aboard the Virginia… She is very surprised to discover that the Virginia is nothing like the luxury ships she was used to in her gilded life. However, the captain immediately captivates her: irresistibly dark, tanned by the sun and the sea, with windswept hair and master of his own ship, Cole Hunter embodies for Kate the fantasy of wild and free virility that she never found in the overly wealthy men of her social circle. Isn't this an unexpected opportunity for her to leave the well-trodden paths she has followed until now? The only fly in the ointment is that this secretive man doesn't seem thrilled to welcome this passenger, whom he clearly considers far too sophisticated...