Yarn of Old Harbour Town

The sea has a memory, and Captain Acton is about to learn it has debts to collect. In 1805, with England and France locked in their brutal war, an old sailor watches flames flicker on the horizon, a ship burning, swallowed by darkness. He doesn't yet know this sight will drag him back into the world he thought he'd left behind. But it is his daughter Lucy who changes everything. When Acton must take to the waters again, every sailor aboard knows what that means: a woman on a ship is bad luck, a curse wrapped in beauty. What begins as a simple voyage becomes a test of love, superstition, and whether a man can outrun the sea's judgment. Russell, the master of nautical romance, weaves a tale where the ocean is both antagonist and altar, where duty to blood may cost everything.