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The last time New Orleans attorney Jean-Luc Valmont saw Maribel Cordoba, a Spanish nobleman's daughter, she was an 11-year-old orphan perched in the riggings of his privateering vessel proving herself as the best lookout on his crew. Until the day his infamy caught up with them all, and innocent lives were lost. Unsure why he survived, but vowing to make something of the chance he was given, Jean-Luc has buried his past life so deep that no living person will ever find it - until a very much alive and very grown-up Maribel Cordoba arrives on his doorstep.

A Viking to bed, not to wed! Medana Elsadottir, known as the Sea Scourge, never planned to become a pirate, but there’s no denying her talent. Her female-only tribe has an island hideaway, food aplenty, goods to trade…everything except the means to breed. That’s where the strapping...

There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map—the key to a legendary treasure trove—seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her...

Young Bethlyn Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Dunsmoor, is forced into an arranged marriage with brash colonial Ian Briston, who abandons her after the wedding ceremony. Seven years later, Bethlyn has blossomed into a beautiful and alluring young woman, with a husband in name only. Wishing for the marriage to be annulled or force her errant husband to make her his wife in all ways, Bethlyn leaves England for America on one of her father's ships. But when the ship is captured by the infamous American privateer, Captain Hawk, he mistakes her for a prostitute. Fighting her attraction for the ...

Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air—and into legend. More ballads, plays, biographies and books were written about Avery’s adventures than any other pirate. His contemporaries crowned him "the pirate king" for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history and escaping with his head intact (unlike Blackbeard and his infamous Flying Gang). Avery was now the most wanted criminal on earth. To the authorities, Avery was the enemy of all mankind. To the people he was a hero.

From the high seas to exotic island shores, passion bound them irresistibly together. They called her “the devil’s daughter”—Quintana Teach, the beautiful daughter of the notorious pirate, Blackbeard. Raised on a pirate ship, amidst dangerous men, she was as fierce and as wild as the sea. Yet something drew her to Jared Avery Cameron, the handsome and daring ship’s captain her father and his crew had taken prisoner. Anger burned in Jared’s heart. The pirates had taken everything from him that he valued, including his ship and his freedom. The longing for revenge smoldered within...

This desert rose has thorns... Dr. Michelle Granger isn't known to suffer fools. She was first in her class in med school, and she'd barely finished her rotations before she was on a plane to a clinic in war-torn Sanaar. The people there need her. If she's forced to appeal to the rude and arrogant Sheikh Amir al Abbas for protection, she'll just have to swallow her pride and ask for his help. When the handsome Sheikh flies into a rage after a petty misunderstanding, Michelle is willing to do whatever it takes to prove her devotion to her cause, even if that means risking her own neck. ......

A pirate stole her past. She refuses to let him steal her future. Sylvie has known terror since the day the ruthless pirate Stone Eyes tore her from her peaceful village in France and forced her into a life she never chose. Two years later, she makes a desperate escape—carrying scars too deep for anyone to see. Alone in the Americas, 1730, Sylvie finds herself in a world as harsh as the one she fled. The lighthouse keeper cannot promise safety. No one can. Sylvie knows Stone Eyes will hunt her until he drags her back into the darkness. Sent to Charles Town, she begins to rebuild a life ...

Ashley Brittany is living a nightmare. She's been mistakenly married to the one man she despises. Months ago, Lord Nicholas took her virtue then scorned her. Now Ashley will do anything to have her revenge...anything but expose her ugly secret. Nick Martingale has a secret, too: He's Captain Robin Hood, a pirate with a fearsome reputation. But when Nick learns his archenemy, the Barbary pirate Yussef, attacked innocents Nick has sworn to protect, he can think of nothing but vengeance.

Abducted! Forcibly taken from her home in New Orleans , Cristabel Albay found herself a prisoner aboard an enemy ship—and soon thereafter, transferred into the vile hands of blood-thirsty pirates! War waged between the newly liberated United States and King George. Still, Cristabel would soon discover that British sailors were the very least of her worries—for the pirate captain, Bully Booth, owned no loyalty—no sympathy for those he captured. Yet hope was not entirely lost—for where there was found one crew of pirates—there was ever found another. Though Cristabel Albay would ...

Once upon a time, Maggie Mackintosh Budge yearned for handsome rogues and breathtaking adventure. Now she dreams only of trading her cold island prison for warmer climes. Desperate to escape a matchmaking father, she stows away on the nearest vessel because sometimes the only solution is running away to sea. Bastian MacLeod never chose a life of piracy, but after coming of age under the brutal regime of Auld Farrand’s Revenge, his world has been limited to placating the volatile captain and staying one step ahead of the Navy, that is until the crew discover Maggie in their cargo hold.

"She thinks she can defy me. She’s about to find out what happens to bad little brats on my ship." Lady Ariana Montcroix was meant to be a wife, not a captive. Stolen from her engagement ball in a whirlwind of chaos and salt air, she wakes to iron cuffs and the dark hold of the infamous Widowmaker. The whole Continent fears its captain—Rhys Blackthorne, a man whispered about in taverns and royal courts alike. A man who takes what he wants and leaves nothing behind but wreckage. But Ariana refuses to bow. She was raised in silk and privilege, and she won’t break for a pirate. Rhys took...

Caitlin MacLean of Scotland is proud to announce her graduation from The Distinguished Academy of Governesses. She specializes in the womanly arts of housekeeping, picking locks, and overthrowing ruthless dictators, and looks forward to attaining a position wherein she can utilize these skills. No dashing, dastardly pirates or faithless, former lovers need seek her services.

Captain Kashatok was dangerous long before Syndicorp destroyed his home world. The prickly alien could never go home, anyway - his people consider him a monster. But the cartel doesn’t care what he does, as long as he delivers the goods. He has a single rule for his crew: no women on board. Imagine his surprise when the new ship mechanic turns out to be a human female in disguise....

An irritating fact to be sure, but that won’t stop Prince Anteros from showing his new wife around his Mediterranean island of Paradiso. His island borders the volatile sea where the Barbary corsairs reign, or at least they did reign. He now does, and he won’t allow any corsair to step foot on his land. Unfortunately, it appears one corsair has, as well as now stolen his wife right out from under his nose.

Captain Elara Quinn never asked to become a legend — but legends have a way of shaping destinies, especially when the sea itself seems to demand her rise. As a masked imposter wages war under her stolen flag, Elara is summoned before the Eastern Governors’ Council… and into the path of the one man who sees straight through her defenses. Captain Kael Rowan is disciplined, principled, and infuriatingly perceptive — the kind of man who challenges her with a single look and cuts through her walls with a single line: “Then prove it.” Bound by duty yet drawn to the woman behind the ...

Daisy de Fleurre, an exiled princess from a faraway land, longs for true love. She almost experienced that at the tender age of eighteen, when she and her servant Chelsey engaged in a smoldering love affair one brief summer before they were separated forever. Eight years later, Daisy is engaged to a man who wants to offer her the world. But she still longs for the woman she has never forgotten. The dastardly lady pirate C.W. Dread, lives for revenge against Lord Humphrey, the evil man who murdered her family. She lays plans to kidnap Humphrey’s fiancée, hold her for ransom, and introduce...

Wanted criminal, Lisa Moss, has come out of hiding to find her missing twin brother. She's carrying top-secret corporate technology that has the law hot on her tail. An alien pirate captain with smoldering eyes and a rock-hard body is the last distraction she needs - but he's also her only hope of escape.

A podcast about the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, the real men and women that threatened the trade and stability of the Old World empires, the forces that led them to piracy and the myths and stories they inspired. Famous names like Captain Henry Morgan, Henry Avery, Charles Vane, Mary Reed, Anne Bonny, Black Bart Roberts, Ned Low, and Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach will rub elbows with Queens, Kings, Popes, rebellious monks, Caribbean Natives, African Slaves and notorious governors like Woodes Rogers. History, high seas adventure, myth and magic, voodoo, treachery, biography and freedom ...

Real-life accounts of the world’s most notorious pirates—both men and women, from the Golden Age of Piracy and beyond—compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself A Penguin Classic Spanning three...