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The Delfe Treasure

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Reads 15,984
Votes 2,237
Parts 64
Time 6h 21m

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Aldrick is obsessed with finding his grandfather's treasure. More than half a century and seventeen voyages have failed to locate his ships after they wrecked in Windward Passage, deeply-laden with pirate plunder and homeward-bound from the Caribbean in 1679.  

Elizabeth, the firstborn of Baron Leigh, was raised in Warwickshire, about as far from the sea as is possible in Britain. Recently betrothed to Aldrick, she doesn't want him to sail out of her life.


First Place Winner in Round One and Shortlisted in the Open Novella Contest  2019 and now expanded into a full-length novel.All Rights Reserved

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