When Fox declares his intentions to fall in love with her, she is startled and confused. She’ll never give her heart, for she learned the hard way that when you give your heart away, someone always takes it and crushes it. Serious yet able to find the joy in life from smoking her cigarillos to bar fighting. Yasmeen has spent her life making sure that no one disrespects her or questions her right to captain her ship-the Lady Corsair. I love when a couple can freely express passion and sexual desire but still laugh and joke together at the end of the day. Their steamy sexual games last well towards the end end and provide us with plenty of entertainment. Yasmeen and Archimedes are a fantastic couple whose chemistry and dynamics are off the charts. It’s not often you can find a couple who complement each other as well as these two do. Which is perfect because these characters would never have survived that sort of story line. Brook’s superb world building whose depth and heart makes this series Heart Of Steel isn’t as emotionally dark as the first in the series- The Iron Duke. While you don’t lose any of the swash buckling high seas, er, sky adventures nor Ms. Fast paced with plenty of humor and gripping action that grabs you at page one. Heart Of Steelis an exciting and stimulating read. When an old friend of Fox’s approaches him for help, Yasmeen and Fox find themselves part of a rebellion in the middle of Horde territory. Yasmeen agrees to help him recover the sketch, for a small fee, but laughs at his declaration of courting her. Fox decides that the adventure and the Captain are too much to resist and once again barges back into Yasmeen’s life. She also relieved him of a certain valuable sketch that he desperately needs back.

When Captain Yasmeen tossed Archimedes Fox over the side of her ship in The Iron Duke for having the sheer gall of trying to commandeer it, she tosses him in a canal which shows Fox that she wasn’t trying to kill him per say, just give him a little wake up call. “Because there is no other way to survive.”

Heart Of Steel (Iron Seas #2) by Meljean Brookįavorite Quote: “Give her a heart of steel.”

The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook