title: The Beauty in Sinking Ships
author:  Jeri Sylvia 
description: Jeri Sylvia grew up as a Navy brat in San Pedro, California where she mastered the art of the slip-n-slide, pillow fighting, and sliding down hills on pieces of cardboard. Luckily, she only managed to break a few bones in the process, but from there stems a determination to overcome any challenge; a motto that has propelled her through life. She now resides in Lakewood, California with her loving family, 5 cats (Azrael, Atari, Atticus Finch, Boo Radley & Hurley) and several strays (Scout, Tiramisu, Cheesecake, Snowy, Ash, Black Beard, Whitey, Bulger & Ford, Pumpkin, Spice, Freckles, Priest, Nintendo and Commodore). When Jeri is not writing or cleaning fur off of her clothes, she can be found working on her new business, Creatish, in which she sells decorative wine glasses within her etsy shop and www.etsy.com/shop/socreatish.
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  Shipwrecked
  
  By Jenna Stone
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a
  heartbeat, in a single, flashing, throbbing moment.”
  
  ~Sarah Dessen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Shipwrecked
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  Twenty-four was certainly not too young to die; the problem was that Rowan
  Murray had never intended to die a virgin.
  
  “Lord have mercy….we’re all goin’ tae die!” bellowed the frantic voice of the
  sailor at the top of the stairs, thin gray hair plastered to his face from the
  combination of the whipping wind and the frothing, angry sea. He braced
  himself in the doorway that led below decks to the cargo compartment of the
  ship and glanced nervously at the crashing waves and then down at the men kept
  in the dark belly of the ship. The sailor gritted his teeth together, his
  conscious having temporarily edged out his instinct to survive, and he
  struggled down the stairs towards the prisoners. “Get ye on deck sae that ye
  can jump overboard.”
  
  “We bloody ca