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    Sea of Fire and Lightning: The Shadow Captain, #1
    Sea of Fire and Lightning: The Shadow Captain, #1
    Sea of Fire and Lightning: The Shadow Captain, #1
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    Sea of Fire and Lightning: The Shadow Captain, #1

    By Aurelia Springs

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    The life of a common scullery maid is set on fire when her town is attacked by legendary pirate The Shadow Captain. Brought aboard to live the life of piracy, she learns more about passions, reality, and the nature of myth than she could have ever imagined with the captain by her side.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAurelia Springs
    Release dateFeb 27, 2015
    ISBN9781507098998
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      Sea of Fire and Lightning - Aurelia Springs

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      Sea of Fire and Lightning (The Shadow Captain, #1)

      The Sea of Fire and Lightning

      By

      Aurelia Springs

      ––––––––

      Book One of The Shadow Captain Series

      Copyright © 2014 by Aurelia Springs

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      It was strange to think that she had run away from the Hell that she grew up in only to end up in Port Levinia. It wasn't much better, but at least her family wasn't here. The people were terrible when you dared to interact with them, all of them turned sour and empty from a life of being trampled into the dirt by everyone around them. But at least they weren't her father and her aunt. Even in the farthest reaches of her mind Eisa didn't like to broach the subject of them.

      She was able to make her way easy enough here. She was pretty enough, with wavy blonde hair, and bright green eyes blooming from pale skin that hadn't been weathered by the years yet to elicit something resembling politeness from most of the men, and quiet enough that no one ever worried too much about her. She did her best to blend into the shadows, just like the legends she had heard as a child.

      Everyone who lived anywhere near the water had heard a hundred different variations of the great Shadow Captain, who would sneak into a port or town under disguise of night and find every little thing of value to be had; every coin hidden under a mattress, every family heirloom, every maiden head, and every book that someone might one day wish to read. Then, with a whisper on the wind as the only warning, his ship would come into the harbor and the crew that poured off of it would strip the town to its barest bones like locusts, before leaving it in a blaze. The stories had been told for generations. The Shadow Captain was unending, the Shadow Captain was invincible.

      It had always made Eisa feel strong as a troubled child. She would press herself into the shadows and pretend to be something greater and grander than she was. She would pretend to be the Shadow Captain when others pretended that their sticks were dolls, and in that dream scape she was invincible.

      But she wasn't a child anymore, and the Shadow Captain was just a legend. She still found the virtue though in hiding in the shadows; in willing herself invisible. After all, there was a reason that she wasn't as down trodden as the rest of the people in this god forsaken town. She was sly enough to stay off the path and out of the way. She had grown particularly adept at it by working in The Dancing Seahorse. It was the nicest inn in town, but that didn't really say much. She had put her skills at invisibility to use very well when it came to the inn's owner, Jaron Weiss, a known pervert who paid her room and board and nothing else for the backbreaking work that she and everyone else in that awful inn did every day. So far, she had avoided him and his horrifying advances well enough, and she intended to keep it that way.

      So she talked to no one, and made no friends. She even avoided giving people her name if at all possible. Shadows didn't have names. This was the way she liked it well enough, until the stranger came.

      Strangers were few and far between. Port Levinia was small and out of the way, and the only travelers to come by were the same ones who had come for years and years before. There was nothing here for someone who didn't already belong. Unless apparently, you happened to be this new woman.

      She was beautiful. Her built was slight and small, but her presence consumed the whole world around her when she entered a room. Her hair of rich dark curls was worn loosely tied at her shoulders, and her eyes black as the night sky shone full of stars. Eisa felt a fire grow in her stomach the instant she first stepped through the Dancing Seahorse's door with a small bag of belongings. Apparently everyone else in the inn felt it too, from the way every single word went silent when she appeared.

      Jaron wasn't far behind. Like a dog who

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