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    Rum and Redemption
    Rum and Redemption
    Rum and Redemption
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    Rum and Redemption

    By Dahlia DeWinters

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    Former slave Lucy escapes a devastating shipwreck and washes up onto a strange shore. Finding shelter in what she believes to be an old fishing shack, she's visited by a handsome ghost with a tragic history who invites her to be his companion. Intent upon starting a new life as a free woman, she resists him at first. However, Lucy soon realizes the weathered house is more than it seems, and is trapped there until she makes a soul-altering choice which will determine her future in this world or the next.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDark Indigo Hearts
    Release dateMay 22, 2018
    ISBN9781386242758
    Rum and Redemption
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    Dahlia DeWinters

    Dahlia DeWinters a multi-genre author who flirts with the dark side. While many of her  stories still dabble in the hearts and roses genre, it is often against a sinister backdrop.  She is a lover of all things scary, even though she tends either to watch them while  gripping her husband's arm or between her fingers. Her enthusiasm for found footage  horror, surprisingly, has rewarded her with a few gems. Drawing, fiber arts, and  gardening are a few of the things she does in her spare time, when not dreaming up  stories of zombies, mysterious happenings in gothic mansions or screening horror films.

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      Rum and Redemption - Dahlia DeWinters

      Dahlia DeWinters

      Rum and Redemption

      Copyright © 2016 by Dahlia DeWinters

      All rights reserved. This copy is intended for the original purchaser of this e-book ONLY. No part of this e-book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without prior written permission from the author. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author's rights.

      Image/art disclaimer: Licensed material is being used for illustrative purposes only. Any person depicted in the licensed material is a model.

      Editor: Leanore Elliot

      Published in the United States of America

      This e-book is a work of fiction. While reference might be made to actual historical events or existing locations, the names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      This e-book contains sexually explicit scenes and adult language and may be considered offensive to some readers.

      Chapter One

      THE COLD, BRACKISH water stung the delicate tissues of her nose and throat as Lucy struggled to expel it from her lungs. She dug her numb fingers into the damp sand, reassuring herself she had indeed made it to shore. The wind howled around her wet, shivering body, slapping her with the stinging surf and freezing rain. She closed her eyes and sobbed with relief. Although Nature had colluded against her, doing everything in its power to keep her from reaching shore, her iron will and desire to survive prevailed.

      Lady Moon danced with the gray, storm clouds just long enough to allow her to glimpse an old, sea-weathered home within reach of her exhausted, shuddering body. It stood at the top of a long flight of wooden steps, its salt-bruised shingles glowing a light blue in the shadowed moonlight.

      Panting, she wiped her wet hair out of her eyes to see it better. Probably a fisherman’s shack with little more than fishing line and hooks contained within. It didn’t matter. To remain exposed in the storm meant certain death, so she roused enough to drag her chilled body across the rough shores toward the promise of shelter.

      As she crawled across the harsh sand, she allowed her gaze to sweep the shore and saw no other living being. Only the sound of the angry waves met her ears and she realized she must be the sole survivor of the shipwreck. Without any indication of help, she redoubled her efforts on reaching the battered house before the rapidly cooling night froze her where she was.

      The Devil’s Pearl, with over fifty crew, had been on course from the Caribbean back to the South Carolina, full of slaves

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