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"Beautiful, soul-shattering, and utterly delicious." ~ Ilsa Madden-Mills, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today bestselling author
Bennett Sharp is on the run.
Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man.
Except Priest Farrell.

The unfaithful, stormy-eyed libertine hunts her with terrifying possessiveness. Nothing will…

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This book took me on an incredible adventure on the high seas. This historical pirate romance has everything—action, suspense, love, betrayal, bloody battles, and scorching hot steamy scenes. Rich and deep world-building, the depth of characters and storylines, and the beautiful descriptions pulled me into this story and kept me there the same way a riptide drags you under. I was left speechless during some scenes and will never be able to forgot this book as long as I live. The battle of wills between Bennett and Lord Ashley Cutler left me breathless and the scenes with her lover, pirate…

From Gwyn's list on fulfilling your pirate fantasies.

This incredible historical tale will remain with you. Married to a pirate against her parents’ wishes, Bennett gets betrayed so badly when she learns her husband’s heart is already taken, that she runs away from him in hatred. Now a prisoner to an ice-cold English officer who hates pirates, she combats both her memories of her husband and her attraction to the officer who clearly doesn’t want to have anything to do with her. Because he hates her husband and women too, doesn’t he? She wishes to run away, and she wishes to never see her husband again. Until finally…

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