The Captain's Enemy
A Forced Proximity, Closeted Star Mafia RomanceBy Sabina Cross
Length7h 33m
About this audiobook
He is a King's officer with a spotless record, a lieutenant who reports on him weekly, and precisely no authority to do the one thing he actually came out here to do.
A brass spyglass, warm from his palm, presses against Alistair's eye as he scans the blue-grey line where sea meets sky. Nothing yet. Just dawn rolling over the island's eastern shore and the Vengeance creaking under his boots like a tired animal woken too early.
*Signal from the schooner. She's been spotted. Running south-southeast, hugging the reef line. The Viper.*
Carver says the name like he is spitting out spoiled meat. He stands too straight, coat immaculate despite the hour, thin fingers already worrying the signet ring on his right hand. Twelve gunports. Sloop-rigged. Flying no colours.
*She's got my brother*, Alistair says. Not to Carver. To the sea, and the empty sky.
*She's got a pirate captain who's taken three merchantmen in as many months. The Admiralty wants her hull on the bottom of the harbour.*
Aboard the Viper, Isaura Delacroix presses her palm flat against the oak of her cabin table while twelve senior crew argue about whether to cut her prisoner's throat and put him over the side before the Navy works out where they are anchored.
What follows: a lie sworn on his father's name, salt and lime, an emperor's borrowed grief, a wound that refuses to close, a favour he has no means of repaying, a mother's prayer, and a second traitor nobody has accounted for.
*I was just afraid to let you be my harbour.*
*You can stop being afraid now.*
*I'll try. But I'll probably fail.*
*Then I'll remind you.*
A historical enemies-to-lovers romance on the Caribbean station, between a naval captain who has already decided to hang and a pirate who has spent her whole life refusing to be anybody's mercy.
He has her word, her ship's position and, eventually, her trust. What remains is convincing her that he is worth the thing she would have to give up to keep him.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length7 hrs 33 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Brother I Cannot Save
2Chapter 2 - The Iron Maiden’s Throne
3Chapter 3 - The Lie I Swore by My Father’s Grave
4Chapter 4 - The Taste of Salt and Lies
5Chapter 5 - The Emperor’s New Grief
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6Chapter 6 - The Wound That Will Not Fester
7Chapter 7 - The Favor I Cannot Repay
8Chapter 8 - The Mother’s Prayer
9Chapter 9 - The Net I Wove Around Myself
10Chapter 10 - The Brother Who Weeps for Me
11Chapter 11 - The Debt I Did Not Know I Owed
12Chapter 12 - The Cage I Made for Myself
13Chapter 13 - The Kiss That Broke the Truce
14Chapter 14 - The Betrayal That Was Not Mine
15Chapter 15 - The Price of a Saint’s Favor
16Chapter 16 - The Daughter I Have Never Held
17Chapter 17 - The Tide That Carries Us Apart
18Chapter 18 - The Cage That Closes Around Me
19Chapter 19 - The Fire That Does Not Burn
20Chapter 20 - The Ashes That We Build On
21Chapter 21 - The Peace That Comes Too Late
22Chapter 22 - The Word I Would Die For
23Chapter 23 - The Horizon We Share
24Epilogue
25The End
26About the Author
27Also by Sabina Cross
28Acknowledgements
29A Note from the Author
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