Surrender by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General
ISBN: 9781101576038
Google: cBiilJ8rgjgC
Amazon: 0736647759
Publisher: Topaz
Published: 1998-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

A half-moon rode high against a clear star-spangled sky. It was a perfect night on the Atlantic. The waves rolled gently.

The Yankee ship and the Lady Varina rode parallel across the waves, moving slowly. Michael O’Hara was at the helm of the Yank while Mr. Douglas himself guided the Lady Varina.

Cloaked in the darkness, Jerome stood vigil at the bow of the Lady Varina. It was late; the sailors had been given a measure of rum for their efforts that day, and now slept in the lazy glory of a solid victory. The surgeons had long since patched up the last of the wounded.

The dead had gone to their watery graves.

Night, and all was quiet.

Except that he had taken a ship of deeply disgruntled enlisted men, and Hal Smith, the lad whose leg had been saved, had been allowed a visit from his friend, Sully. Sully not only knew that there was a plot afoot for the captain, first officer, and a lady passenger to escape, he knew that the attempt would be made that night.

Sure enough. Jerome had stood, still as a great heron, for hours. Then he saw the dark figures moving along the bow to the longboat.

The longboat fell with a minimum of sound.

Jerome stepped to the rim of the bow, caught hold of a guide rope, and swung down the length of it to one of the longboats tied to the ship. He looked across the few feet of water that separated him from his men—Jeremiah Jones, David Stewart, and Jimmy Meyers—in a second boat. “Gentlemen, it’s time,” he said quietly.

And the longboats shot out into the night.

Within a matter of seconds they had come around the Lady Varina, and were in pursuit of the escaping Yanks.

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