I Kissed an Earl (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Le Chat: Pirate who has been boarding ships, stealing cargo, setting the crew asea in launches, and sinking the ships
• Captain Asher Flint, Earl of Ardmay: Captains The Fortuna; Recently titled by King George IV for his heroism at sea; English born but lived in America until he was orphaned at ten.
• Miss Violet Redmond: Only daughter of Isaiah and Fanchette Redmond; notorious in Pennyroyal Green, Sussex for being epically rash.
• Monsieur Lavay, Viscomte of the House of Bourbon: Captain Flint's friend and First Mate
• Mr. Lyon Redmond: Oldest Redmond son and Heir who has been gone 2 years
• Mr. Hardesty: Captains The Olivia; Lyon Redmond's merchant ship alias
• Captain Jeremiah Mooreheart: Captains The Steadfast - one of the ships sunk by Le Chat; Took 10 yr old Flint into his care and trained him to sail; Drejeck Group investor
• Miss Olivia Eversea: Lyon Redmond's love; a stalwart abolishionist; she refused him
• Mr. Littlemont: English offices of Hayman, Hayman and Littlemont in La Rochelle who maintain the accounts for the Drejeck Group
• Mr. Corcoran: Sailor on Captain Flint's ship
• Hercules: Cook on Captain Flint's ship
• Mr. Rathskill: Former cook's mate on Captain Flint's ship who Violet bribes to assist her to board in secret.
• Mr. Greeber: Sailor on Captain Flint's ship
• Fatima: Captain Flint's mistress in Morocco
• Mr. Isaiah Redmond: Violet's father
• Fanchette Redmond: Violet's mother
• Colin Eversea: Olivia's older brother; rescued at the last minute from a hanging; now raises sheep and cows in Pennyroyal Green
• Mr. Miles Redmond: A published explorer and middle Redmond son
• Cynthia Redmond: Miles' wife; formerly Cynthia Brightly
• William Gullickson: Drejeck Group Investor
• Marie-Victoire, Viscomtesse Hebert: Formerly an actress who was once Captain Flint's lover
• Mr. Jonathan Redmond: Violet's youngest brother
• Martha Heron: Gypsy girl who tells fortunes.
• Mr. Musgrove: Drejeck Group investor in Brest
• Comte Hebert: Friend of Lady Conyngham; told her it was Flint who saved her cousin's life
• Monsieur Fontaine: Drejeck Group Investor in Le Havre
• Lady Peregrine: A close acquaintance of Violet's; lives in Northumberland
• Amy Hart: A close acquaintance of Violet's
• Maurice: Redmond footman
• Lord Argosy: Friend of the Redmond's
• Lord Courtenay Peregrine: Lady Peregrine's husband
• Ned Hawthorne: Owner of the Pig & Thistle
• Millicent Hart: A close acquaintance of Violet's
• Polly: Waitress at the Pig & Thistle
• Mr. Lumley: Add a description of this character.
• Mathias: Young boy who sailed with Le Chat, captured by the Portuguese Pirate Agreba, and then by Captain Flint
• Lady Wartham: Young Lady Jonathan is attempting to charm at the ball
• Lady Windemere: Fannette Redmond's friend
• Lady Conyngham: The King's mistress; Flint saves her beloved cousin's life, which inspired King George to reward him with the title of Earl of Ardmay
• Lisbeth Redmond: Violet's cousin
• Chase Eversea: Olivia's brother
• Jacob Eversea: Olivia's father; an investor in Drejeck
• Dewey: Sailor on Captain Flint's ship
• Mcevoy: Sailor on Captain Flint's ship

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• “"W-weevils?" She did NOT want to be the ship's weevil shaker.”

  Violet Redmond

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• “The measure of a gentleman is how he behaves when he hasn’t an audience to witness the beauty of his manners.

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• how terrifying a thing it is to love. For it owes its sweetness in large part to the razor-edged fact that it could be lost in the blink of an eye,

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• When and if Violet ever fell in love, lightning would split the heavens, tectonic plates would shift, continents would reorder themselves. Because she might be willful and spoiled and impetuous, but no one loved with the force of his sister. Her love story would be epic.

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• “I could not have born it if he killed you. You. I could not have lived. I simply would have…stopped breathing. I would have killed him a dozen more times. Happily. For you.”

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• “One of the investors listed on the last page of Moreheart’s diary is…Jacob Eversea.”

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• She screamed the white-hot bliss of it as though she was being murdered. As though she were being born.

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• “But Violet…when I saw Lyon, I knew I was sunk. I live only to make you happy, Violet. You’re necessary to me. I belong with you. And please, for the love of God, may I touch you now?”

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• Captain Flint, mixed-breed bastard, privateer and trader, newly styled Earl of Ardmay, belonged everywhere and nowhere.

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• Perhaps love is an affliction or aberration, and all the sane people avoid it.”

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• “Flint…why are you here? Where is Lyon?” “I’m here because I wanted you to know that I did what I did…for someone I love.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• Brest
• England
• America
• Lacao
• Plaza De Mina
• Morocco
• Cádiz
• France

First Sentence edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Since the Surrender, and followed by What I Did for a Duke.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Julie Anne Long (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Historical