Live to Venture (#0)
tarishannon18
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  • Reads 3,250
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  • Parts 48
  • Time 9h 38m
tarishannon18
Complete, First published Nov 20, 2021
Mature
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Brilliance and power are two sides of the same coin. 

Nova's life plays out exactly how she orders it to-- but she's starting to feel like she's giving the wrong demands. Ambition lives deep inside every bone of her talented body, and there's very little that deters her. As she crafts her legacy, she'll keep to her rules, and uncertainty will stay far away from her. 

The King of the Sea has never doubted himself for a moment. And yet, when his precious ship is attacked in the dead of night by Sirens, Vallin finds himself struggling to maintain his confidence. The only way out of the cell he sits in is to win a mind game against someone drastically smarter than him. 

They'd both die for adventure. But who's willing to live for it?


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Cover by xxsoteria

Rated mature for graphic depictions of themes further detailed in the information chapter. 

This is the prologue to the Venture Series. It is standalone and can be read without any prior knowledge.
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Pirate's Life For Me....

37 parts Complete Mature

[18+; Use an age indicator in YOUR BIO to confirm you're 18+ if you want to follow/comment or you'll be blocked for safety purposes] Deana Blake, a child raised without the affections of her father and the knowledge that her mother ran away with a pirate only to be hung like one soon after. Fighting to stay alive as her father sailed on a merchant ship, Deana learned many skills to get food or money even if it was pick-pocketing. She kept an old rum bottle to store what she could save and vowed to become the best sailor in the ocean to prove to her father and everyone else that her gender wasn't what was holding her back. Deana Blake, a woman serving as a cook aboard the ship Petrel, is not really getting anywhere closer to her dreams of being a well-known captain. Her skills in the kitchen are extraordinary, but her skills with a knife were just as known to anyone who dared enter her galley. She bribed her way onto the boat while manipulating the Captain to keep her aboard. Deana wouldn't do anything she didn't have to, and she wanted to earn the right to be a captain rather than take it, so that was how she spent years cooking for an ever-changing crew on the Petrel until the ship was attacked and sent to her watery grave. Deana Blake, a woman to be feared. Date Published: Nov 28, 2017 ✨~Ranks~✨ #1 BlackSails- 11/20/2021 #1 CharlesVane- 8/5/2023 #1 Piracy- 3/4/2024 #12 CanonxOC- 11/22/2021 #148 Pirates- 11/20/2021

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