Beneath Red Sails
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When Captain Erasmus Hawthorn took command of the Victoria, he expected hardship, not a mutiny. The ship was old, her crew half-trained, and her loyalties uncertain. Yet it is one of his own-a silent, sharp-eyed boy-that begins to unravel everything he thought he knew of order and obedience.
As storms rise and the line between honor and survival thins, Erasmus finds his crew turned corsair and his conscience tested by a sea that answers to no crown. Amid blood, salt, and the hush between thunder, trust becomes a currency more perilous than gold-and somewhere in that quiet, a bond takes root that could damn or deliver them both.
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