For the past four weeks, since the end of the fresh food, ship’s biscuit had been all any of them between decks were given to eat, and even that had dwindled from three biscuits a day to one. The slow starving worsened each day, gnawing mercilessly at both strength and will Sitting on the deck be...
said Gabriel as he leaned across the counter, his temper barely held in check. “That rum in the wagon out front is mine, bought and paid for, and the sooner you deliver it to my sloop, the better for you.” “Nay, Cap’n, I told you it ain’t yours.” Although his words were belligerent, instinct stil...
To be sure, there was little similarity between holding his long-lost wife Anne and Jane Wood. Anne had been tall and lissome with a dancer’s grace, while Jane was small and slight and restrained. For more than ten years, he’d believed that there could never be another wom...
Nick's head whipped up, his fingers stilled in mid-caress. Lily was sitting cross-legged like a Turk on the pillows at the top of the bed, her wings behind her echoing the curved headboard, her hands draped across her bent knees. Why now? he thought wildly. Why in blazes did Lily have to come now...