The Captain's Bargain
A Holiday Homecoming, Forbidden Rivalry RomantasyBy Casey Bell
Length7h 59m
About this audiobook
Nassau in the heat is a town that collects debts. It collects them in the morning on the wharf, in front of witnesses, from men who have already paid.
Salt-scoured hemp bites into Nathaniel Hawke's palms as he hauls the last crate of salt cod across the gangplank. The wood groans under his boots. Somewhere a gull screams, thin and hungry, a sound that goes through the morning heat like a knife through soft fruit.
*That's the lot, Hawke. And I'll thank you to remember next time you want credit, I'm not your bloody bank.*
*You got your money. Every penny of it.*
*Every penny late.*
The Nereid sits low in the water with a hold full of salt cod, barrel staves and a dozen casks of rum bound for Savannah. If the wind holds he will be past the Abacos by midnight and out of these islands for good, which has been the plan for longer than he cares to count.
Then a man comes down the wharf with a satchel and hands that will not stay steady, grey-green eyes like the sea before a storm, and asks for passage to the cays.
*I'm not taking passengers.*
*I can pay.* Two hundred guineas now. Another hundred at the far end.
Jace Carrington is lying about why he wants to go. Nathaniel takes the money anyway, which is the second-worst decision he makes this year and by some distance the best thing that has ever happened to him.
What follows: a brass compass that should not point where it points, a botanist's case with the wrong contents, a nightmare that repeats, a rescue at the cays, a rat, a knife, a wound, a rose, and a betrayal laid bare in front of the entire crew.
One deck. Two liars. A ship worth more than either of them.
*No more ghosts. I promise.*
A historical seafaring romance between two men who each boarded this voyage running a separate deception, and neither of whom accounted for the possibility of being believed.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Lie I Built My Life On
3Chapter 2 - The Passenger I Didn’t Want
4Chapter 3 - The Brass Compass
5Chapter 4 - The Botany Case
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6Chapter 5 - The Nightmare
7Chapter 6 - The Cay Rescue
8Chapter 7 - The Compass Speaks
9Chapter 8 - The Lying Truth
10Chapter 9 - The Rat and the Knife
11Chapter 10 - The Wound and the Rose
12Chapter 11 - The Betrayal Bared
13Chapter 12 - The Ghost in the Pillow
14Chapter 13 - The Battle for the Nereid
15Chapter 14 - The Priceless Map
16Chapter 15 - The Long Wait
17Chapter 16 - The Cage
18Chapter 17 - The Choice Made
19Chapter 18 - The Silent Boarding
20Chapter 19 - The Reunion and the Reef
21Chapter 20 - The Wound Laid Bare
22Chapter 21 - The Offering
23Chapter 22 - The Final Gambit
24Chapter 23 - The Truce Broken
25Chapter 24 - The Harbor of the Heart
26Epilogue
27About the Author
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Casey Bell
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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