Leaving the Captain

She married him to stay out of a prison barge. He's spent three years keeping her out of one. Sera Voss lives in a walled house on a harbor island where she can see the water and never touch it. Her husband, Captain Aleksander Voss, comes and goes with the tide and never tells her where. She knows every door in the house. She has never used one. When Aleksander's employers order him to hand her over as collateral on a deal gone wrong, he refuses in front of his own crew — and the island becomes a siege. Sera is the one who makes the plan. Across a moonlit harbor in a stolen dinghy, with the house burning behind them, Aleksander finally tells her why he came for her three years ago, and it isn't the reason she assumed. Papers get signed on the far coast. Sera gets her name back. What she does with it is the whole story. A marriage-in-crisis captive romance with a heroine who runs the escape and a captain who finally talks.