The Professor and the Smuggler

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  • A
  • grumpy
  • smuggler
  • meets
  • a
  • bumbling
  • professor
  • and
  • treasure
  • is
  • found.An
  • explorer
  • at
  • heart,
  • former
  • university
  • professor
  • Phillip
  • Singleton’s
  • adventures
  • have
  • only
  • taken
  • place
  • in
  • his
  • imagination—until
  • recently.
  • Exploring
  • the
  • Cornish
  • coast
  • to
  • research
  • a
  • travel
  • book,
  • he
  • encounters
  • a
  • living
  • example
  • of
  • a
  • pirate
  • archetype.
  • Dark-haired,
  • black-bearded
  • Carne
  • Treleaven
  • might
  • have
  • been
  • hewn
  • from
  • the
  • very
  • rock
  • his
  • name
  • describes,
  • and
  • Phillip
  • is
  • eager
  • to
  • discover
  • more.Carne
  • has
  • little
  • patience
  • for
  • the
  • awkward,
  • dreamy
  • professor,
  • an
  • outsider
  • who
  • must
  • be
  • steered
  • away
  • from
  • local
  • secrets.
  • He
  • agrees
  • to
  • serve
  • as
  • a
  • guide
  • to
  • seaside
  • caves
  • where
  • smugglers
  • once
  • operated
  • only
  • to
  • keep
  • Phillip
  • away
  • from
  • more
  • recent
  • activity.As
  • personalities
  • clash,
  • secrets
  • unfold,
  • and
  • riches
  • are
  • revealed,
  • the
  • two
  • polar
  • opposites
  • find
  • the
  • point
  • where
  • their
  • similarities
  • lay.
  • Carne’s
  • old
  • beliefs
  • are
  • shattered
  • by
  • his
  • attraction
  • to
  • a
  • man
  • and
  • he
  • must
  • decide
  • if
  • he’s
  • willing
  • to
  • take
  • a
  • huge
  • step
  • outside
  • his
  • familiar
  • life
  • and
  • into
  • a
  • brand
  • new world.
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