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He Bought My Father's Name to Make Me Kneel, but I Was the One Who Cut His Chains

The Merchant's Daughter He Owned

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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In her father's Shetland store in 1884, the biggest curer on the Ness lays down the bank's ledger and says he now owns every debt her father wrote. He will take her labour for a year and a day, and he flinches from her touch like a man struck.

Tropes & themes: female lead · dark romance · forced proximity · revenge · public-scandal · enemies to lovers · historical · possessive love · betrayal · period drama · steamy · debt-bondage

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Store at Closing (free)
  2. Chapter 2: The Hall at Voe Head (free)
  3. Chapter 3: The Loft Stair (free)
  4. Chapter 4: The Croft Above the Wick (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: The Open Door (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: The Black Book (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: Salt (locked)
  8. Chapter 8: Keep Your Hands Where You Put Them (locked)
  9. Chapter 9: The Curing Shed (locked)
  10. Chapter 10: Hallgerd (locked)
  11. Chapter 11: Her Father's House (locked)
  12. Chapter 12: The Page (locked)
  13. Chapter 13: What He Said (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: The Apology (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: The Debt (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: The Two Hundred (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: The Black Book Read (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: The Fair Eve (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: The Book Burned (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: The Last Night (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: The Fair (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Herring Fair (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: The Light Night (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: The Shop on the Ness (locked)

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