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Scales of Gold

Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnett
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Darlene Marshall: Gainesville, Florida, United States; I write historical romance with pirates, privateers, smugglers, and the occasional possum. Available in print and ebook: What the Parrot Saw (High Seas #4) Also available: The Pirate's Secret Baby (High Seas #3), Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence and the NECRWA Readers' Choice Award Castaway Dreams (High Seas #2), Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Award Sea Change(High Seas #1) The Bride and the Buccaneer NERFA award for historical romance Smuggler's Bride and Captain Sinister's Lady EPIC Award My French publications: À la merci du corsaire and in German, Samt Und Säbel, Rache Und Rosen and Im Aufruhr der Gefühle. My books are also available in Estonian. Really. Represented by Barbara Collins Rosenberg of The Rosenberg Group.

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