Beneath Black Sails (Beneath Black Sails, #1)

by Clare Sager

I’ll still be alive to go drinking tonight or I won’t. Nothing I can do about it.

“That’s what I thought. Look, I’ve practised this—don’t try and match how long I stay under. Come up for breath when you need to.” “Good thing you warned me—I was planning on drowning.”

“Captain Blackwood…” Somehow formality felt safer, but damn it, did she want to be safe? “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you’re looking at me like you want to kiss me.” His fingers twitched against her. “I do.”

And when little Avice Ferrers had been caught and scrubbed clean, dressed and presented to the Queen, she’d found herself face to face with that new friend.