Sunday, August 30, 2026

Myranda Rae: Mark of the Damned

 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231327250-mark-of-the-damned

Book Blurb:

Niamh is on the run. Leaving behind her family, her past, and everything she's ever known in search of something more.

When she charters a ride on a ship bound for Portugal, she expects rough waters, maybe even danger. What she doesn't expect is this crew… or the secrets they keep beneath the surface.

Adventure and love on the high seas are perilous enough, but with this ship, things turn unreasonably deadly.

Because some monsters don’t wait in the water, some walk the deck.

Tropes: 

* Indie Author  *Shifter Romance *Protective MMC *Found Family *origin Story *Ireland

*Spice  *under 200 pages *Close proximity *fierce FMC *Secrets revealed *fantasy

Thoughts:

Niamh is a young lady and her father has decided that she will marry a local nobleman to essentially help with her younger sister's future marital prospects... Problem is the guy is a lot older and he is just awful she can't do it and she won't do it.  

Her only option is to run away to the coast and hopefully sell the horse she stole from her father, once she gets there the horse doesn't fetch as much coin as she thought it would but she has no choice as her father is likely to be after her soon.

She gets taken in as a passenger by the first crew she can they are on their way to Portugal and at this point she is willing to go anywhere as long as it gets her far away from her current fate as unwilling bride.

Now she is alone on board with a rough and tumble crew... who all share a secret and it's one that could cost her... she just has to continue to keep her head down and make herself useful as a cook and cleaning and mending thier clothes... but there is a lot to learn when it comes to sea living and it isn't a luxury cruise.

The Captain and a few of the crew members are not a fan of her being on board, but she catches the eye of The Captain's son Silver (aka Cooper).  Cooper is nothing like his gruff father he is sweet, protective and handsome as sin... she is beginning to feel things for him that she probably shouldn't but can't help but feel anyways.

Cooper feels the same towards her but he wants to protect her from himself and the rest of the crew, in order to do this he has to do the hardest thing ever and push her away it's for her own good.  

Niamh our brave FMC ends up tagging along with this crew on their mission in Portugal and she knows what she wants in her life... but can she make her own future with so many elements out of her control?  

This was a fun adventure on the high seas with danger, secrets revealed, and a true love worthy of becoming legendary! 

Have you read this one?  What did you think?  

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