Shanghaied Heart

Rachael, at fifteen, needs a good husband—in the worst possible way. Catholic and the lone Black teenager living on the fringes of a 1960s Pacific Northwest farming community, she is pregnant from a violent rape. As her only hope to protect her father, her unborn child, and herself from the rapist's retaliatory death threats, she maneuvers an unwilling fellow student into a shotgun marriage to disguise the source of her pregnancy.  

But marriage to a White boy during this era highlighted by the U.S. Civil Rights Movement carries its own share of challenges, which she and her conscripted husband struggle to overcome. 

Bent on revenge, the rapist returns following his penitentiary escape, adding kidnap and murder to the young couple's trials. Will the strength of this unlikely marriage rescue Rachael and her daughter from the rapist and his sadistic fellow escapee? Or will her shanghaied husband seize this opportunity to abandon the wife and child he didn't want and thereby separate himself from the obligations and stigma of a mixed marriage?

Shanghaied Heart
by Chuck Lyons

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