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      INTERIOR ARTWORK

      IS LOCATED

      BETWEEN CHAPTER 12 AND CHAPTER 13

      and also can be accessed via the TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Daredevil Snared

      The Adventurers Quartet: Volume 3

      Stephanie Laurens

       www.mirabooks.co.uk

      ISBN: 978-1-474-05438-6

      THE DAREDEVIL SNARED

      © 2016 Savdek Management Proprietary Limited

      Published in Great Britain 2016

       by Harlequin MIRA, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF

      Cover design by Savdek Management Pty. Ltd.

      Cover and inside front couple photography © 2016 Period Images

      Image of jungle cabin interior: photographic credit to piccaya

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       Table of Contents

       Introduction

       Cast of Characters

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Caleb’s Sketch of the Mining Compound

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Interior Artwork

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Dear Reader

       An Excerpt from Lord of the Privateers

       Other Titles from Stephanie Laurens

       About the Author

      Responsibility knocks, and a reckless, hedonistic man responds and opens the door to love—thus is a daredevil snared.

      #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you the third installment in THE ADVENTURERS QUARTET, continuing the drama of Regency-era high seas adventure, laced with a mystery shrouded in the heat of tropical jungles, and spiced with the passionate romances of four couples and their unexpected journeys into love.

      Captain Caleb Frobisher, hedonistic youngest son of a seafaring dynasty, wants to be taken seriously by his family, and understands he has to prove himself sufficiently reformed. When opportunity strikes, he seizes the next leg of the covert mission his brothers have been pursuing and sails to Freetown. His actions are decisive, and he completes the mission’s next stage—but responsibility, once exercised, has taken root, and he remains in the jungle to guard the captives whose rescue is the mission’s ultimate goal.

      Katherine Fortescue has fled the life of poverty her wastrel father had bequeathed her and come to Freetown as a governess, only to be kidnapped and put to work overseeing a child workforce at a mine. She and the other captured adults understand that their lives are limited by the life of the mine. Guarded by well-armed and well-trained mercenaries, the captives have been searching for some means of escape, but in vain. Then Katherine meets a handsome man—a captain—in the jungle, and he and his crew bring the sweet promise of rescue.

      The sadistic mercenary captain who runs the mine has other ideas, but Caleb’s true strength lies in extracting advantage from adversity, and through the clashes that

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