Camille disguises herself to gain a position as the captain's cabin boy aboard a ship bound for the Caribbean in 1676. She soon discovers her natural urges, and her feelings must be expressed as a young boy looking at a father figure, not as a smitt...
If you've made it this far, you might also like my 2019 ONC entry, The Delfe Treasure, which took First Place in Round One and was selected for the Shortlist. It has since been expanded into a full-length novel.
Aldrick is obsessed with finding his grandfather's treasure. More than half a century and seventeen voyages have failed to locate his ships after they wrecked in Windward Passage, deeply-laden with pirate plunder and homeward-bound from the Caribbean in 1679.
Elizabeth, the firstborn of Baron Leigh, was raised in Warwickshire, about as far from the sea as is possible in Britain. Recently betrothed to Aldrick, she doesn't want him to sail out of her life.
We begin the story as Aldrick escorts Elizabeth to meet his eighty-five-year-old grandfather.
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