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The Portrait (free review copies available, just message me!)

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Reads 75,470
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Parts 5
Time 47m

A ship's captain, a crime,  a secret. An unwanted daughter of an earl who suddenly discovers that she has inherited her own earldom..through her mother.  And in order to protect her inheritance, the countess needs a child. And the captain needs protection. It sounds like a fair exchange, a workable solution for two people in trouble. But...there was that portrait. That damned portrait.

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