Read during Fall 2004

Very unlike the Flambards books and unlike the Pennington books as well. A brother and sister in Victorian times are left at the mercy and charity of their unpleasnt aunt and uncle in a seaside fishing village. They deciede to strike out for themselves in the fishing boat left by their father and make their way in the world, running into a charming but self-absorbed smuggler along the way. I didn't want Emily to like Adam, her rich employeer's smuggling son, as much as she did but it was very believable. A highly enjoyable read.