Wicked tides
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dark pirate romance full of blood, betrayal, and wicked obsession.
Branded. Beaten. Left to die at sea.
River should've drowned. Instead, she claws her way back to life-rescued by pirates and dragged aboard the Crimson Wraith, a ship feared across the Shatterchain Isles.
Her rescuer?
Captain Killian Drake-lethal, seductive, and never merciful.
Killian doesn't take strays. He takes what he wants.
And River? She's a storm wrapped in skin-violent, mysterious, and burning with secrets she refuses to share.
But the more she resists, the more he hungers for her.
And when their twisted fates begin to intertwine, passion and danger collide in a slow-burn battle of wills that neither of them can afford to lose.
One is running from the past.
The other is ruled by it.
And the sea always demands a price.
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