She sees beyond his affluent criminality to a dark, wounded heart. Mickey will do anything to protect them – not out of the kindness of his own heart, but because nobody touches what’s his.īut when Silence agrees to stay at Mickey’s ‘palace’ and live amongst his looted treasures with Mary Darling, she starts to unravel Mickey’s history with the Vicar. The Vicar has somehow got wind of Mary Darling and her adopted mother, Silence. Mickey has been battling the Vicar throughout his childhood, spent on the dangerous streets of St. Giles turf war against the scarred and terrible Vicar of Whitechapel. Little Mary, with her head of black curls and pansy-coloured eyes filled the void left by her husband’s death.īut now Mary’s father has come to take her away. The small ray of hope that dragged Silence out of her misery was Mary Darling, an abandoned baby left on her doorstep. When Silence’s husband perished at sea she was heartbroken and drowning in grief, despite the fact that their marriage had been over ever since she’d agreed to Mickey’s offer. one purely innocent night that ruined Silence’s reputation forever, and destroyed her marriage. She stayed the night with St Giles’s most notorious pirate king, Mickey O’Connor. Silence Hollingbrook once paid a pirate’s ransom to save her husband. Except now that same river pirate is back.and he’s asking for her help. That night wounded her so terribly that she hides in the foundling home she helps run with her brother. She went to a river pirate for help in saving her husband and in the process made a bargain that cost her her marriage. Widowed Silence Hollingbrook is impoverished, lovely, and kind-and a year ago she made a horrible mistake. Yet he’s never been able to forget the naive captain’s wife who came to him a year ago for help-and spent one memorable night in his bed.talking.
Mickey has no use for tender emotions like compassion and love, and he sees people as pawns to be manipulated. Devastatingly handsome and fearsomely intelligent, he clawed his way up through London’s criminal underworld. “Charming” Mickey O’Connor is the most ruthless river pirate in London. Can a pirate learn that the only true treasure lies within a woman’s heart?
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