No Such Thing as Luck

John and Margaret, #1

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  • What
  • began
  • as
  • a
  • last-chance
  • goodbye
  • becomes
  • the
  • future
  • she
  • never
  • dreamed
  • possible.John
  • Thornton
  • is
  • facing
  • the
  • collapse
  • of
  • everything
  • he
  • has
  • worked
  • for
  • all
  • of
  • his
  • life.The
  • only
  • woman
  • he
  • ever
  • loved
  • has
  • gone
  • to
  • London
  • and
  • forgotten
  • all
  • about
  • him.
  • Aching
  • for
  • what
  • he
  • lost,
  • he
  • doesn't
  • have
  • time
  • to
  • grieve
  • because
  • his
  • cotton
  • mill
  • is
  • on
  • the
  • brink
  • of
  • financial
  • collapse.Through
  • his
  • banker,
  • he
  • hears
  • about
  • a
  • business
  • opportunity
  • that
  • could
  • save
  • the
  • mill.
  • His
  • only
  • hope
  • is
  • to
  • investigate,
  • even
  • if
  • it
  • means
  • traveling
  • to
  • Spain
  • when
  • he
  • can
  • least
  • afford
  • it.Margaret
  • Hale
  • is
  • haunted
  • by
  • regret.Both
  • her
  • parents
  • have
  • died,
  • and
  • she
  • has
  • thrown
  • away
  • her
  • only
  • chance
  • at
  • love.
  • She
  • longs
  • for
  • what
  • might
  • have
  • been,
  • and
  • wishes
  • more
  • than
  • anything
  • for
  • one
  • more
  • chance
  • to
  • see
  • John
  • Thornton.Margaret
  • is
  • surprised
  • by
  • a
  • letter
  • from
  • her
  • godfather
  • Mr
  • Bell,
  • who
  • is
  • visiting
  • her
  • brother
  • Frederick
  • in
  • Cadiz,
  • Spain.
  • Bell
  • is
  • dying
  • and
  • asking
  • to
  • see
  • her
  • before
  • it
  • is
  • too
  • late.
  • For
  • a
  • chance
  • to
  • set
  • something
  • right,
  • Margaret
  • is
  • determined
  • to
  • sailregardless
  • of
  • the
  • risk.An
  • accident
  • on
  • the
  • docks
  • leaves
  • Margaret
  • injured,
  • and
  • throws
  • them
  • together
  • on
  • the
  • same
  • ship.John,
  • resolved
  • to
  • protect
  • Margaret's
  • honour
  • despite
  • their
  • painful
  • history,
  • claims
  • to
  • be
  • her
  • brother
  • to
  • keep
  • her
  • safe.
  • Unfortunately,
  • pretending
  • to
  • be
  • Margaret's
  • brother
  • proves
  • more
  • difficult—and
  • more
  • dangerous—than
  • he
  • ever
  • could
  • have
  • imagined.No
  • Such
  • Thing
  • as
  • Luck
  • is
  • a
  • fade-to-black
  • Victorian
  • Romance
  • featuring
  • the
  • characters
  • from
  • Elizabeth
  • Gaskell's
  • beloved
  • North
  • & South.
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