The Master of Ships, Naomi Finley
The Master of Ships, Naomi Finley
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The Master of Ships

Author: Naomi Finley

Narrator: Reagan Boggs

Unabridged: 3 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Huntson Press

Published: 07/01/2020

Synopsis

CHARLES HENDRICKS flees to London after his wife gives birth to a child belonging to his younger brother. Devastated, he numbs the pain with drink. Leaving a tavern one night he stumbles upon a cloaked female figure lying in a dark alley. Charles helps the stranger, unaware the chance encounter would eventually alter his life forever when hidden secrets and feelings are revealed. A few years later, he returns to London to search for this woman with the goal of setting right his wrongs of the past. Imprisoned by fear, will unraveled secrets change everything for Charles after he finds her?ISABELLA became smitten with the handsome but troubled businessman from America who rescued her. He fled just as their flourishing friendship turned passionate. When the apprenticeship system is abolished, Isabella has no choice but to create another life for herself. She disappears without a hint of her whereabouts, carrying a secret with the potential to ruin everything Charles holds dear. Time passes when an innocent outing finds Isabella reliving emotions of love and abandonment she thought were buried. Can she still find the peace and safety she so desires? Or will fate continue to unleash a life of inescapable affliction?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Grant on May 26, 2019

Reviewed For Readers' Favorite By Grant Leishman The Master of Ships by Naomi Finley is a short historical novella that follows the lives of Charles Hendricks, a wealthy American, slave-owner and merchant, in the 1840’s and the woman he fell in love with, in England, the half-black, former slave, Is......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on January 26, 2025

Now we know Charles An excellent look at the character, Charles, in this novella, The Master of Ships. This novella can be read as a stand alone, before or after reading The Livingston Legacy Series without hampering any part of the storyline.......more

Goodreads review by mary e savini on May 19, 2019

This is a glimpse of Charles as a younger man after losing his wife when Willow was a little girl. It is also about Isabella (and now we need a book about her after this book ends!). But I digress. Charles finds his new direction in life in this story and how that comes about is sad, but a bit encha......more

Goodreads review by Paula Singleton on June 30, 2019

Love this series This book deals with Charles story. The whole series and the Novellas that go with the books are great. They take place in the Times that slavery was still being practiced in the south. Love the ending of this novella where Charles finally sees what his wife, who has since passed, wa......more

Goodreads review by Susan on May 25, 2020

A missing link. An insight into the life that unwillingly breaks the heart of two men and divides the lives of two brothers. The story brings us to another twist of events that both hurts and heals the hearts of to people who needed each other, if only for a moment in time. I wanted it to last longer......more

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