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    The Sea Will Change
    The Sea Will Change
    The Sea Will Change
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    The Sea Will Change

    By Natalie-Nicole Bates

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    Mary is a simple turn of the century Londoner living among the pollution and squalor while dreaming of moving to America and becoming a famous singer. She stows away on a ship making its way overseas. But one night she is attacked by a creature with glowing green eyes.

    Her Fate is changed forever.

    The ship makes landfall on a beautiful deserted island and the crew has vanished. Mary falls in love with her island paradise and the changes in her brought about by the creature with the glowing eyes.

    But nothing good lasts forever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPerfectly Poisoned Press
    Release dateOct 3, 2019
    ISBN9781393207108
    The Sea Will Change
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    Natalie-Nicole Bates

    Natalie-Nicole Bates is a book reviewer and author. Her passions in life include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey to being born in Russia. She currently resides in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of 19th century post-mortem photos.    

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      The Sea Will Change - Natalie-Nicole Bates

      Natalie-Nicole Bates

      The Sea Will Change

      Mary’s Island Paradise

      Copyright © 2019 by Natalie-Nicole Bates

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      Natalie-Nicole Bates asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      Natalie-Nicole Bates has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

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      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      About the Author

      Also by Natalie-Nicole Bates

      Chapter One

      It was a simple life.

      And she was a simple young woman.

      Well, maybe not so simple anymore, but at one time, Mary Wicke was a simple Londoner living a life of squalor in an overcrowded tenement building with what seemed like one hundred relatives. Every day when she looked out the filthy windows at the factories billowing thick, acrid smoke into the atmosphere, she wished for escape.

      Escape came the hot, sticky summer day she sneaked aboard a merchant’s vessel leaving London and headed for New York. The trip, she overheard the crew talk, could take anywhere from four to twelve weeks depending on weather conditions, to cover the two continents. It was the dawn of the twentieth century now, and Mary was aware of the great steamships that could cover the distance in five days. Yet, there was a certain charm to the two-masted schooner. The fore-and-aft rig was more weatherly, allowing better sailing angles into the wind, and required smaller crews since the sails were operated from the deck rather than aloft. The crew was made up of only a few men, so less likely she would be discovered aboard. Mary was a small, slight girl, so hiding out was never an issue. She didn’t need

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