Title: Enslaved By the Ocean
Author: Bella Jewel
Expected Release Date: December 9, 2013
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Synopsis
Indigo is running, she has no other choice. She's done something bad,
and there only way to escape it, is to flee her home, and her country.
She sets out on a luxury Yacht, to take her to another country with
her best friend Eric. But she runs into a problem.
The Yacht catches fire.
She ends up stranded in the ocean, terrified, and scared of the uncertain.
Until they show up. The pirates. Terrified, Indigo and Eric have to
face the reality that this might be the end for them. These are pirates,
they are the criminals of the ocean. What chance have they got of surviving
this nightmare?
Then she lays eyes on Hendrix. He's the Captain, he's gorgeous, rugged,
and mean. He's planning on keeping her to repay his debt to another
man, by selling her. Now Indigo has a crazy ex after her, as well as
a pirate she can't seem to get out of her head.
Come on this heart wrenching, dark, angsty and dangerous adventure
as two people so opposite, find something so beautiful.
Excerpt
“Please reconsider…”
I say, lifting my eyes up to meet his.
He crosses his
broad arms across his chest, and standing like that, he looks incredibly
handsome and powerful. God, he’s dangerous, it’s written all over
him. From the way his muscles rip and move when he does, to the way
his clothes hug his hard, firm body. His hair is loose this afternoon,
and it hangs down to the base of his neck in thick waves. He has the
kind of hair any woman would envy. The gold hoops in his ear glimmer.
How can he be so beautiful, and yet so completely awful?
“All the pleading
ain’t goin’ to change my mind. I have debts to pay. Don’t take
it personally.”
“Don’t take
it personally,” I snarl. “You’re selling me to someone who is
likely to use me as a sex slave, but you don’t want me to take it
personally?”
He growls. “Listen,
girl. I suggest you stop questioning my motives, and start learning
to shut your mouth. I am not beyond hangin’ you off the side
of the ship and lettin’ the sharks have a go at catchin’
you.”
My eyes widen.
His tell me he’s
serious.
“I don’t
want to stay in here with you, let me go back to the cell.”
“Ain’t gonna
happen.”
“I won’t
leave my friend, I will make your life a living hell!” I threaten.
“Is that a
threat?” he growls, uncrossing his arms and stalking over.
“No, pirate.
It’s a promise. He’s everything to me. I won’t let you leave him
down there to rot. Unless you’re going to watch me every second of
every day, then you can’t be sure I won’t do whatever it takes to
escape this. Including taking my own life.”
He takes a deep,
ragged breath. “You wouldn’t kill yourself, what sort of friend
would that make you?”
“You’re selling
me to be fucked for the rest of my life, do you really think it hasn’t
crossed my mind?”
He stiffens as
if my words are suddenly a very real possibility.
“I will give
you one choice here, you either take it or you don’t. If you stay
here, keep yourself safe and don’t attempt to run…I will continue
to feed your friend. I will give him food and water, and when we stop,
I will let him go.”
My eyes widen.
He’s offering Eric’s freedom, in return for me promising to stay
and do as he asks. Basically, it’s my friends life or my own. If I
say no, Eric dies. If I say yes, I am basically selling myself. I close
my eyes. I already know the answer, I knew it from the moment I decided
I would do whatever I could for Eric. I open my eyes and I meet Hendrix’s
gaze. “How do I know you’re not lying?”
“Pirates code.
We make the deal in blood. I don’t break my deals.”
“You will swear
that he will be fed and given water, and released with no strings. He
can go back to his life and live it happily if I promise to do as you
ask?”
Hendrix nods.
I close my eyes
and hang my head. “It’s a deal.”
He steps forward,
and I lift my eyes to see him bring out a knife. He slices it across
his palm lightly. A small trickle of blood appears. I cringe, and my
entire body begins to throb. I’m about to sign my life away. It’s
the only choice. At least with this choice, I know Eric goes free. I
can find a way to escape after. I’m sure I can. Hendrix reaches down,
and he takes my hand, bringing the knife to my palm. I try to tug it
away.
“No, I don’t
want to blend blood!” I cry.
“Everything
is sealed in blood, pirates code. You don’t seal it, I don’t promise
your friends safety. I don’t have diseases, so stop your crazy and
shake my fuckin’ hand.”
He makes a line
so fine on my palm, I barely feel it. Only a tiny drizzle of blood appears.
He reaches his hand out. I hesitate.
“How much is
your friends life worth to you? If you don’t shake my hand, I don’t
make the deal. By blood or by nothing. I don’t break my promises.
You hesitate a moment longer, and I will change my mind.”
I stretch out
my hand. If I die from a disease, so be it. My outcome really isn’t
looking too positive anyway. Hendrix reaches his hand out, and just
before I touch it, he speaks the words. The words that bind me to him
- at least for now.
“By the code
of the ocean, we make this deal.”
I swallow, and
I put my hand in his. One of his large hands covers mine, and I find
myself shivering at the contact.
“By the code
of the ocean,” I whisper. “We make this deal.”
Author Bio
Bella Jewel is an Aussie girl through and through.
She spent her life in Western Australia, growing up in many different
areas of the state. She now currently lives in Perth with her husband,
children and mass amounts of pets. She's crazy, fun, outgoing and friendly.
Writing is her passion, she started at the young age of 18 but finally
got the courage up to publish, and her first novel Hell's Knights was
released in August 2013.
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