He Bought My Nights in the Dark, and I Hated Him by Day
Bought in the Dark, Hated by Day
A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read
To buy her twin out of a ruthless fish baron's debt, Astrid Lunde signs on to spend five nights a month in a pitch-black room with a man she may never see. When lightning hits the deck in a December windstorm, she finds out the buyer is the salvage captain she blames for her father's death.
Tropes & themes: contemporary · female lead · forced proximity · romance · enemies to lovers · modern city · steamy · debt-bondage · secret identity
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Chapters
- Chapter 1: The Note (free)
- Chapter 2: Night One (free)
- Chapter 3: Collect Her (free)
- Chapter 4: Twine (free with an account)
- Chapter 5: The Lutefisk Dinner (free with an account)
- Chapter 6: The Christmas Ships (free with an account)
- Chapter 7: For Nils (locked)
- Chapter 8: My Name Is Astrid (locked)
- Chapter 9: The Galley (locked)
- Chapter 10: Her Wrists (locked)
- Chapter 11: Julaften (locked)
- Chapter 12: The Line (locked)
- Chapter 13: Names (locked)
- Chapter 14: The Page (locked)
- Chapter 15: The Light (locked)
- Chapter 16: The Kitchen (locked)
- Chapter 17: The Wheelhouse (locked)
- Chapter 18: The Dock (locked)
- Chapter 19: Four Windows (locked)
- Chapter 20: Shutters Open (locked)
- Chapter 21: The Breakfast (locked)
- Chapter 22: The Seventeenth of May (locked)
- Chapter 23: The Bed (locked)
- Chapter 24: Market Street (locked)