THE PRIVATEER'S WAGER

Ravenscar Romances

By: Vivienne Scarrow

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Privateer's Wager

Jamaica, 1797. She inherited his company. She didn't inherit his secret.

Maggie Moorhaven has spent thirteen months keeping her dead husband's shipping company afloat, certain she finally understood the life he left her. Then a privateer walks into her office and tells her exactly how wrong she was.

James Moorhaven spent the last four years of his life smuggling enslaved people to freedom under false manifest, and Captain Rhys Marsh was the man who sailed them. Now James is gone, Rhys is out of ships that won't draw Customs' attention, and there are people waiting on a beach who don't yet know they've lost the only man who promised to come for them.

Maggie has three things Rhys needs: a ship Customs has never questioned, a head for numbers sharp enough to spot the lie in any manifest, and a grief that's about to become something far more dangerous than mourning.

What follows is a voyage neither of them planned for, French privateers, a Navy lieutenant who knows exactly what he's choosing not to see, a found family of crew who'll teach a widow to read the wind as easily as a ledger, and a captain who's spent six years convinced he didn't deserve anyone standing beside him.

Maggie didn't ask for any of this. She finds, somewhere past the reef, that she isn't sorry it found her.

A swashbuckling, spicy companion to Vivienne Scarrow's Ravenscar Romances, for readers who loved the history of While the Pipes Still Play but want a little more salt air, a little more banter, and a captain who flirts even when he's terrified.