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After the heroine adventures of A Hidden Queen, Joe Carter-Austin finds herself settling into her old life with a new role. Five years after taking over The Cyclone and constantly on the move, the couple find little time to linger in any one port, until they decide to cash out their recent bounty. Joe, unknowingly, has stumbled onto James' home territory. She now finds herself face to face with a man she thought she'd never see again and caught in the mix of his latest scheme. With her family in danger, Joe must make some hard, drastic decisions as she tries to figure out how to survive in a situation that may very well end with her death. Read the latest adventures of Joe Carter in Deadly Schemes.
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