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Castles

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Crown's Spies #4

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The man she married as a child returns to claim her — hiding a secret life as a notorious pirate.

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When the man she had wed as a child returns to claim her, Sara Winchester finds him arrogant yet handsome, but she is unaware of his past as the notorious pirate, Pagan.

Crown's Spies series

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