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River of Passion by Kathryn Hockett aka Kathryn Kramer aka Marcia Hockett aka however many other names actual romance readers can remember spotting her under, an f/m Victorian historical adventure romance set during an African expedition, originally out from some Kensington imprint in 1993.
Like the shadow of a huge beast waiting to entrap its prey, the outline of “the dark continent” rose up in the early morning mists. Dr. Amanda Jane Lawton had come to this land of fierce exotic animals, dangerous vine-infested jungles and unexplored rivers, to find her lost missionary father. Now as she waited for the boat that would take her up the Congo she was having second thoughts—about the journey, the bad weather, and the wisdom of putting her life in the hands of a man she had never even met.
Captain Dante Roth was a man who valued his solitude and was determined to live his life just the way he wanted to. Adventure. Travel. Exploring. Freedom. That was what life on the river gave him. He would never have agreed to take some doctor up the river on his boat—the Dante’s Desire—if he didn’t need the money. In his mind he pictured Dr. A. J. Lawton as some paunchy, pompous, bespectacled old reprobate with a face frozen into a perpetual frown. Little did he know he was in for a big surprise!
The Boston born-and-bred doctor—the stubborn, unshaven, determined boat captain—a mismatched pair of traveling companions who seemed to be at odds over everything until they surrendered to their untamed desires in the steamy wilds of the jungle.