The Sea Will Change

By Natalie-Nicole Bates

Mary is a simple turn of the century Londoner living among the pollution and squalor while dreaming of moving to America and becoming a famous singer. She stows away on a ship making its way overseas. But one night she is attacked by a creature with glowing green eyes.

Her Fate is changed forever.

The ship makes landfall on a beautiful deserted island and the crew has vanished. Mary falls in love with her island paradise and the changes in her brought about by the creature with the glowing eyes.

But nothing good lasts forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Perfectly Poisoned Press
• Release date: Oct 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393207108

Natalie-Nicole Bates

Natalie-Nicole Bates is a book reviewer and author. Her passions in life include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey to being born in Russia. She currently resides in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of 19th century post-mortem photos.    

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Natalie-Nicole Bates

The Sea Will Change

Mary’s Island Paradise

Copyright © 2019 by Natalie-Nicole Bates

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

About the Author

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Chapter One

It was a simple life.

And she was a simple young woman.

Well, maybe not so simple anymore, but at one time, Mary Wicke was a simple Londoner living a life of squalor in an overcrowded tenement building with what seemed like one hundred relatives. Every day when she looked out the filthy windows at the factories billowing thick, acrid smoke into the atmosphere, she wished for escape.

Escape came the hot, sticky summer day she sneaked aboard a merchant’s vessel leaving London and headed for New York. The trip, she overheard the crew talk, could take anywhere from four to twelve weeks depending on weather conditions, to cover the two continents. It was the dawn of the twentieth century now, and Mary was aware of the great steamships that could cover the distance in five days. Yet, there was a certain charm to the two-masted schooner. The fore-and-aft rig was more weatherly, allowing better sailing angles into the wind, and required smaller crews since the sails were operated from the deck rather than aloft. The crew was made up of only a few men, so less likely she would be discovered aboard. Mary was a small, slight girl, so hiding out was never an issue. She didn’t need