Dead Men Tell No Tales
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You are Mr. Cole, sailing home from the Australian goldfields aboard the Lady Jermyn with Eva Denison and her father. Captain Harris swears the ship carries only ballast, but locked hatches and the smell of oil say otherwise. When the hidden hold catches fire, the deck opens beneath you both and Eva's hand slips from yours in the smoke; no other voice answers across the wreck. Rescued alone, you come home to newspapers calling you a hero — and a stranger next door who knows what solitude the doctor prescribed.
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- The Last Voyage of the Lady JermynClipper Ship, 1853