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Aboard her privateering ship, The Seaflower, Captain Imena Leung is the law. Ashore she answers only to her liege, Duke Maxime. They are a powerful couple, with an intense attraction neither can disguise nor deny. As a nobleman, Maxime is destined to wed strategically, so his seductive advances must be purely for pleasure. And what self-respecting pirate denies herself any pleasure? Their delicious dalliance is prolonged when Imena is forced to abduct Maxime to thwart a political plot against him. At sea, with a stunningly virile man bound and held in her private quarters, Imena can imagine—and enact—any number of intoxicating scenarios. The heat between captain and captive is matched only by the perils that beset The Seaflower and her crew. Violent storms, marauding corsairs and life-or-death sex games on a desert island—how fortunate for the seemingly insatiable lovers that danger and desire go hand-in-hand.
Aboard her privateering ship, The Seaflower, Captain Imena Leung is the law.
Born to a powerful Duke and a beautiful Duchess, Clara is left without parents when her mother abruptly leaves shortly after Clara's birth and her father disappears on a hunting trip two years later. The new Duke, a very distant relative, has no time for a leftover child. He removes her to the oldest part of the castle where she'll be no reminder of her illustrious father. Accustomed for fifteen years to the new Duke's neglect, she is quite surprised when he tells her that she is to marry a Lord Evan Macwary, eleventh Baron of Lochenny, and will be leaving to meet her husband-to-be immediately after her farewell party. Lochenny is so remote that only one person in the Castle, an elderly servant, has ever seen the place. When he hears that Clara is to be sent off to Lochenny to wed Baron Macwary, he comes secretly to her room at night with two pieces of information:1) Lochenny Castle is an abandoned ruin, and 2) the Macwary line died out nearly a century ago...The new Duke, as her guardian, has absolute authority over Clara, so her options are few. She can obey and be taken away in two days to a very uncertain fate, or she can be gone when her 'escorts' come to fetch her at dawn of the second day. To get free will be easy enough. To stay free will mean a new country, a new name, and a new life.
“A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant-adventurers who terrorized the seas, extended the Empire, and amassed great wealth for the throne. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy Council to anchor her throne—and in doing so, planted the seedlings of an empire that would ultimately cover two-fifths of the world. In The Pirate Queen, historian Susan Ronald offers a fresh look at Elizabeth I, relying on a wealth of historical sources and thousands of the queen's personal letters to tell the thrilling story of a visionary monarch and the swashbuckling mariners who terrorized the seas to amass great wealth for themselves and the Crown.
Things go disastrously wrong when a young girl plays matchmaker between her governess and a duke in this romantic and funny Regency.
"A true daughter of the fearsome O'Malley clan, Grace spent her life wishing to join the fight to keep Henry VIII's armies from invading her homeland of Ireland -- only to be told again and again that the battlefield is no place for a woman. But after English conspirators brutally murder her husband, Grace can no longer stand idly by. Leading men into battle on the high seas, Grace O'Malley quickly gains a formidable reputation as the Pirate Queen of Ireland with her prowess as a sailor and skill with a sword. But her newfound notoriety puts the lives of Grace and her entire family in danger and eventually leads to a confrontation with the most powerful woman in England: Queen Elizabeth I."--publishers website.
From piracy to nunnery via murder, the scaffold, and rescue by Queen Elizabeth, Pirate Queen tells the sensational story of Grace O'Malley, terror of the seas.
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in maritime communities from the inception of England's burgeoning empire in the 1570s to its administrative consolidation by the 1740s. Although traditionally depicted as swashbuckling adventurers on the high seas, pirates played a crucial role on land. Far from a hindrance to trade, their enterprises contributed to commercial development and to the economic infrastructure of port towns. English piracy and unregulated privateering flourished in the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean because of merchant elites' active support in the North American colonies. Sea marauders represented a real as well as a symbolic challenge to legal and commercial policies formulated by distant and ineffectual administrative bodies that undermined the financial prosperity and defense of the colonies. Departing from previous understandings of deep-sea marauding, this study reveals the full scope of pirates' activities in relation to the landed communities that they serviced and their impact on patterns of development that formed early America and the British Empire.
Rachel Windham is a beautiful imaginative woman, who dreams of exploring the world of the rich, and seeks to join the Academy of Arts. Her brother, the Earl of Harewood, will not let her pursue her dreams, and so she is pressured to give up her aspirations and subject herself to the norms of society. No one would suspect it, but the pirate that has terrified and garnered the respect of all who sailed the seven seas is actually the eldest son of the Duke of Devon. Upon hearing of his father's approaching demise, he hastily abandons his wild life to see his father one last time. He is a man with a golden heart, and the many injustices of the world touch him so much that he ends up rejecting society and hurting his family relations in the process. With Rachel in the midst of battling with the idea of abandoning her hope, and Cornelius thrown into a crises of self-doubt, there could not have been a worse time in their lives to meet. But when they do so, things begin to turn around, and though they have much to accomplish to reach their destination, they find courage in each other's arms.
Just when she decided to remarry... Duty forces him to take on the pirate code, but honor brings him back. Prudence, Duchess of Blackmoor, has one desire—to be happy again. After struggling to overcome the horrifying death of her husband, she accepts an earl’s offer of marriage, confident she’s taking a step in the right direction. But demons, refuse to die, and Prudence finds herself caught in an intricate web of deceit that threatens the very foundations of all she holds dear. Tobias, the Duke of Blackmoor, crosses the line when an assassination attempt on him fails. To restore the reputations of friends under attack by the same villain, and ensure his wife’s safety, he stages his own death, becoming The Black Regent, a notorious pirate bent on brandishing justice, never thinking he’d survive. But to his amazement, he has, and now the darkest-kept secrets are not worth losing the duchess his wife has become.