"God is a great deviser of stratagems," writes Kaye. The stratagems devised for [Trade Wind] will keep the reader turning pages compulsively. Twenty-one year old Hero Athena Hollis sets out from Boston for Zanzibar in 1859 to fulfill her mission in life—to stop slave trading. On the journey she is washed overboard and rescued by Rory Frost, a piratical slave trader. Stubborn, spoiled Hero clashes with equally stubborn, overconfident, wicked Rory. Disagreements come in rapid succession about her naïve assumptions, his overbearing manner, her proposed marriage, his occupation, etc. Palace intrigue, revolution, a pirate raid on the island, and a murder lead up to Rory's kidnapping of Hero.

Andrea Lee Shuey, in a review of "Trade Wind," in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, June 15, 1981; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1981 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 106, No. 12, June 15, 1981, p. 1322.