Review: Blessed Isle by Alex Beecroft

Format read: ebook copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley
Release Date: December 31st 2012
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Number of pages: 103 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Riptide Publishing, Amazon

Blurb:

For Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he’s ever worked for.

Lust quickly proves to be the least of his problems, however. The deadly combination of typhus, rioting convicts, and a monstrous storm destroys his prospects . . . and shipwrecks him and Garnet on their own private island. After months of solitary paradise, the journey back to civilization—surviving mutineers, exposure, and desertion—is the ultimate test of their feelings for each other.

These two very different men each record their story for an unfathomable …