![]() ![]() Not only that, he never wanted to marry for fear of making his wife a widow. It is no small matter that Oliver finds himself in love because he never thought he’d ever find the right woman. Oliver removes himself from the Drake immediately and befriends and eventually falls in love with the viscounts illegitimate daughter. ![]() Of course Oliver is suspicious of his supervisor’s request and his involvement in this solicitous family matter. It seems that his boss wants him to spy on his daughter and asks him to stay at the Mulberry and report back to him on her situation. He had already sent his sea chest to the Drake, an inn he uses regularly, before Viscount Ratcliffe approaches him for a favor. He had to bring his ship to dry docks for repairs and remedy a bad throat. Things have gotten so bad financially that she has had to cut her hair to pay the more “pressing bills.”Ĭaptain Oliver Worthy, an Admiralty Officer of the Royal Navy, has come ashore with his men from the Tireless. ![]() ![]() Massie has had to go to competing Inns and leave placards to garner clientale. The barricade and the ships returning back to shore has led to fewer clientale. The story is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars.Įleanor Massie, aka “Nana” runs her struggling inn, the Mulberry further up shore. Marrying the Captain (2009) by Carla Kelly is a story about a sea captain falling in love with the illegitimate daughter of a viscount in Plymouth. ![]()
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