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James Hathaway would rather be a sea captain than heir to a sprawling plantation. His parents don’t approve, so he spends most days at the card tables. When his father threatens to cut him off, James agrees to pursue someone “suitable” in exchange for a ship’s post.
Phoebe Applewaite worries she’s a burden on her mother but won’t ransom herself to escape spinsterhood or fund the millinery shop of her dreams. When foppish James Hathaway tries to cajole her into a dance on Twelfth Night, she’s determined to ignore the ridiculous man who ruined her coming out so many years ago.
As the Charleston season throws them together, Phoebe and James concede to a polite friendship, but it feels like something more. Working together to export her goods seems harmless enough, but a house party at his Sandy Bank plantation reveals more hungers in their hearts than just hopes for success and adventure.
Can a wealthy heir find happiness with a woman of ambition, or will old habits ruin his chances to commandeer a ship and send Phoebe running for the Carolina low country?
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