Showing Tides of love by Patricia Matthews

Beautiful, dirty, and illiterate, Marianna grew up in a band of murderers and thieves--shipwreckers and salvagers on the wild and dangerous coasts of the Outer Banks. Then one day Marianna salvages two treasures that she keeps for herself: a beautiful glass vial, and a gentlemanly young castaway whom she shields and nurses back to health. For the love of “her salvage,” Phillip Courtwright, Marianna runs away to Boston and learns to become a lady--or almost! But Phillip has left her, obsessed with his ongoing quest to clear his father’s name. Alone, making a life for herself in the rough whaling town of Sag Harbor, Marianna encounters Captain Adam Street, whose passionate and hot-tempered character is a match for hers. The happy new life they create together is jeopardized by their own misunderstandings, by Adam’s love of the sea, and by the return of Marianna’s unladylike past.