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Captain Simon Park and his crew agree to kidnap Lord Ryland Grace for ransom.
It ought to be simple enough: take the supposedly sickly heir from his father’s estate, keep him safely aboard the Iron Starling for a handful of weeks, and return him once Count Grace decides his only son is worth paying for.
Except Ryland is neither sickly nor difficult. He is polite, capable, strangely resigned to his own captivity—and, before long, slipping into lessons beneath the open sky, shared meals, borrowed names, and the quiet rituals of a crew that has made a family out of the unwanted.
Then the ransom goes unanswered.
And Simon begins to wonder whether anyone ashore ever intended for Lord Ryland Grace to come home at all.
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