The Gilded Shore

Kahina arrived in Seravalle with a plan: use Nico's world of opulent high life to find the corsair network that scattered her family, then leave. She did not plan on him being genuinely funny, genuinely good-looking, and actually curious about her as a person. She is recalibrating. She is mildly annoyed about it. Nico has built his life on avoiding obligations, charm as a full-time occupation, and not opening his father's letters. He took Kahina to annoy his business partner, stall a forced betrothal, and because she was the most interesting person in the room. He is getting more than he planned for and finding he does not want to give it back. What happens when two people who are each using the other for entirely reasonable purposes discover, inconveniently, that they have also genuinely chosen each other?

Chapters

Chapter 1: Chapter 1 - The Shadow on the Sun
Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - The Evening
Chapter 3: Chapter 3 - First Rights
Chapter 4: Chapter 4 - Inside Eclaire's
Chapter 5: Chapter 5 - The Anchor
Chapter 6: Chapter 6 - The Arrangement
Chapter 7: Chapter 7 - Something Cracks
Chapter 8: Chapter 8 - His World
Chapter 9: Chapter 9 - What She Was Meant For
Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - What the Ally Knows
Chapter 11: Chapter 11 - What She Shows Him
Chapter 12: Chapter 12 - The Father Arrives
Chapter 13: Chapter 13 - Whose Name Was On It
Chapter 14: Chapter 14 - The Night Before
Chapter 15: Chapter 15 - Open Water
Chapter 16: Chapter 16 - The Coach
Chapter 17: Chapter 17 - The Real World
Chapter 18: Chapter 18 - The Execution
Chapter 19: Chapter 19 - Armand Falls
Chapter 20: Chapter 20 - The Bow