Heather Adams
More than 200 years ago privateers and spies roamed the Long Islandshores As a child, Heather Adams grew up on the East end of the island,daydreaming about these events. The result is her premier novel, On AngelsWings. She now resides in Delaware, where she writes full time.Star crossed lovers, Duke Monroe Enderby who fancies himself anadventurer like his hero Odysseus, and Angela Anderson, an equallyadventuresome girl, fi nd themselves on opposite sides of the Atlantic,separated by scorned servant Polly. Monroe begins his own twenty yearOdyssey before he can be reunited with his beloved.In 1755 Angela Anderson’s father dies and turns her life upside down.After fi nding that she is a lord’s bastard and then being sold to a brothel,she leaves her home and meets Duke Monroe Enderby. He marries herunbeknownst to all but a blind man of God and after becoming pregnantwith Monroe’s child, Angela decides to leave Enderby Hall to protectMonroe’s family name. Helped by scheming servant Polly who covetsMonroe for herself, Angela escapes to Gray Corners, a solitary placewhere all noblemen send their pregnant mistresses.After spending ten heartbroken years there, she and her son Weylintravel to America where the Revolutionary War is getting ready to breakout. Her troubles really begin when the British plot to kidnap her inan attempt to stop her son from helping the Sons of Liberty! Actual historyis interwoven to give On Angels Wings and adventuresome spirit as well asthe romance that three continents, two wars and twenty years cannot kill.
