num_pages: 222
description: A grumpy smuggler meets a bumbling professor and treasure is found.An explorer at heart university professor Phillip Singletons adventures have only taken place in his imaginationuntil recently. Exploring the Cornish coast to research a travel book he encounters a living example of a pirate archetype. Dark-haired black-bearded Carne Treleaven might have been hewn from the very rock his name describes and Phillip is eager to discover more. Carne has little patience for the awkward dreamy professor an outsider who must be steered away from local secrets. He agrees to serve as a guide to seaside caves where smugglers once operated only to keep Phillip away from more recent activity. As personalities clash secrets unfold and riches are revealed the two polar opposites find the point where their similarities lay. Carnes old beliefs are shattered by his attraction to a man and he must decide if hes willing to take a huge step outside his familiar life and into a brand new world.
language: English
title: The Professor and the Smuggler
publisher: Duet Publishing