Dauphin's Wake - Softcover

Victoria, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1069751316 ISBN 13: 9781069751317

Publisher: Arbre & Argent Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

Dauphin Boission steals yachts the way an art thief might rescue a painting: carefully, reverently, and with a story that justifies everything. Valedictorian, global citizen, and son of a powerful Montreal lawyer, he’s spent years designing a business that will discretely pay for the life he wants.

After graduating from university in Paris, his father gives him a strange kind of blessing: take one summer off and let go for a few months. He hits the road in the family’s vintage Jeep, headed for a faded rental cottage in the Florida Keys, planning long, empty days to figure out what comes next.

A chance encounter with an unattended yacht and a lifetime spent around marinas pull Dauphin into an unplanned heist with consequences he never saw coming. With the fiercely capable Eva at his side, he turns thrill-seeking into a highly organized business, moving million-dollar toys through shell companies, legal loopholes, and international waters.

They’re careful. They’re smart. They choose targets who’ll never miss what’s gone. On paper, the boat brokerage is spotless. Taxes are paid, locals employed, and there are plenty of legitimate deals on the books. For a while, life as a gentleman pirate and respected yacht broker feels almost honest.

But the spirits he’s been borrowing luck from keep their own score.

When a job in Hawaii goes sideways and dangerous people take notice of their latest theft, Dauphin is forced to run the numbers on his own life: Is he building a future or just managing risk for one long, expensive thrill? To survive, he’ll have to trust the people he loves, outmanoeuvre the people chasing them, and decide who he wants to be once the engines finally go silent.

Dauphin’s Wake is a sun-soaked, high-stakes nautical coming-of-age story about friendship, first love, and learning to captain your own life like it’s the most valuable thing you’ll ever steal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arbre & Argent Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1069751316
• ISBN 13: 9781069751317
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213