title: We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (Red Fox Older Fiction)
author:  Arthur Ransome 
description: He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure. <i>Observer</i><br /><br />There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating. <i>TLS</i>
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  When Crispin Daventry fled London’s most notorious gaming hell, the
  Underworld, with a broken heart and empty pockets, he wasn’t sure he would
  ever return.
  
  But after a spell of debauchery in Italy with his new friend Count Este, he
  believes he has finally cast aside all thoughts of romance and is ready to pay
  back his debts, seeking his own unique revenge on the venue that bankrupted
  him.
  
  So when an usual stowaway in the shape of Lady Amanda Beasley appears on his
  ship bound for home, life at sea suddenly becomes far more tempestuous.
  Concealing a young woman travelling alone is both improper and inconvenient,
  and a complication Crispin could happily do without.
  
  Duty-bound by his gentleman’s upbringing, he agrees to protect her until they
  are back on English soil. But will a return to the capital of sin turn this
  damsel in distress into something more?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Return to the House of Sin
  
  The Bastards of London
  
  Anabelle Bryant
  
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  ONE PLACE. MAN