The Price of Power
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Larkel Rosetta is not your average noble-born daughter. She's stubborn, prudish, sensible, and far too clever for her own good. Amongst the nobility of Evermath, she sticks out like a sore thumb.
Captain Cassius Delafour is a pirate, known to the citizens of Evermath only as "The Fury," wicked, fun loving, as handsome as he is reckless. Yet his charming and shallow-seeming demeanor disguises his true, steely nature.
Thrown together to their mutual dismay, it seems as though they will just have to put up with each other - for now.
But matters are not all as they seem in Evermath, and Larkel, whose family is a staunch supporter of the king, discovers secrets that should never have seen the light of day..
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