Length8h 20m
About this audiobook
Hugh Strickland has wanted this logbook since he was twenty-three and first saw its photograph in a footnote. Eighteen years, three degrees and one pending divorce later, he is in a folding chair in a basement auction room in Portland, watching a man in a linen suit turn its pages like a priest handling a relic.
Lot forty-seven. The personal logbook of Captain Elias Thorne, who wrote his last entry the day before the Mary Rose went down off Matinicus Island with all hands. The bidding opens at four thousand dollars.
Hugh's museum has authorised him up to twelve. He argued for fifteen. Eliza said no.
The man bidding against him looks like he wandered in off a fishing boat and decided to cause trouble. His boots are scuffed at the toes, there is engine grease on his cuff, and a scar cuts through his left eyebrow.
*"You don't even know what you're bidding on."*
*"Don't have to. I know what it's worth."*
*"To whom?"*
Liam Donnelly takes it at twelve thousand dollars and gives the room a theatrical bow.
He was not bidding for himself. The buyer is Jasper Cole, who is already telling anybody who will listen that the logbook is a forgery and the museum nearly bought a fake. Hugh is the man who authenticated it for the catalogue. If it is a forgery, his career goes up in smoke. If it is genuine, he is the curator who let it walk out of the room in a canvas bag.
So Hugh drives two hours up the coast to Port Haven to ask a rival antiques dealer for permission to examine the object he has spent his adult life chasing.
What he finds there is a cluttered shop that smells of salt, a man who studies him the way people study tide charts, and a grandmother in a nursing home with Alzheimer's whose possessions are being sold off one at a time to pay for her care.
An enemies-to-lovers MM romance between a maritime historian and a small-town antique dealer, over a single object that neither of them can afford to be wrong about. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Artifact That Started a War
3Chapter 2 - A Proposal I Can’t Refuse
4Chapter 3 - The Den of the Rival
5Chapter 4 - The First Page I Can’t Read
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6Chapter 5 - A Night of Fish and Fireworks
7Chapter 6 - The Second Clue I Ignore
8Chapter 7 - Lunch With the Enemy’s Cousin
9Chapter 8 - The Locked Drawer
10Chapter 9 - The Apology That Costs Me
11Chapter 10 - Midnight at the Shop
12Chapter 11 - A Slip at the Clam Shack
13Chapter 12 - The Board’s Decision
14Chapter 13 - The Date That Almost Wasn’t
15Chapter 14 - Clara’s Room
16Chapter 15 - The Donnelly Grudge
17Chapter 16 - The Anonymous Email
18Chapter 17 - The Trap I Walk Into
19Chapter 18 - Eliza’s Countermove
20Chapter 19 - Fighting Together
21Chapter 20 - The Black Moment Begins
22Chapter 21 - Liam’s Side
23Chapter 22 - The Lie I Built My Life On
24Chapter 23 - The Grand Gesture
25Chapter 24 - The Plan
26Chapter 25 - The Boardroom Battle
27Chapter 26 - The Logbook’s Home
28Chapter 27 - A New Harbor
29Epilogue
30The End
31About the Author
32Also by Emmy Sutton
33Acknowledgements
34A Note from the Author
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