Caribbean Pirates

A silver-eyed girl washes up from the sea, and nothing in Mouse’s life is quiet again. Fern is a duke’s daughter, stolen by pirates and cast ashore in a city she doesn’t understand. Mouse is a street orphan who thought he knew Meara—until the city begins whispering secrets only he can hear. Now the pirate Bluebeard hunts them both. Fern thinks it’s for ransom. But the truth runs deeper, hidden in stone and salt. Because Mouse isn’t just a quiet boy with a borrowed name—he’s the key to an undersea world, and the city has not forgotten. The Pirates of Meara is a gentle, ...

[Rating: PG-13] The Twenty-seventh novel in the award-winning "Tropical Frontier" series, "The Foundling" is, in addition, the Second novel in the "Castaway" sub-series. Tim Robinson is the award-winning author of Florida-based historical fiction (Patrick D. Smith Award, Florida Historical Society, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2022). It is 1715, and Caspar Crispian - former slave, celebrated opera star, notorious pirate, and wanted man in at least four nations - has found his place in the world. Home is a desolate, tropic shore, located at the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean, two rivers, and a ...

A timeless European classic. 7 million copies in 7 languages. Three generations of fans. And now finally in English! Who are you, really? A beautiful tale of extraordinary people in an extraordinary land. In 1726, a Polish-Virginian in trouble with the law took to the sea and was stranded on an uninhabited Caribbean island. His only desire was to survive and find a way back to his civilization. But fate had other plans: he would meet a tribe of Native Americans and they would adopt him. The Polish Virginian would become someone new and different, someone he had no idea he could be: John ...

A young sailor receives a cutlass ...with the power of maximum good or ill. Rab Burnside lives with Jesse his competitive brother and Buttons, their quixotic grandfather, on the windswept coast of Newfoundland in the middle of Queen Anne’s War. One day, Buttons spots a mysterious ship sailing toward shore, doomed to crash into the shoals. Rab and Jesse scramble to save it and set in motion a series of events that take them on the trip of a lifetime, beginning with the court of Queen Anne of Great Britain. There, the queen informs the trio of a nefarious pirate named Captain John Smallbeer...

In Paris, a ruthless descendant of Napoleon has risen to power, hell-bent on restoring France's former glory. His fiery ambitions are cynically stoked by a coterie of cold-blooded Mandarins, plotting behind the gates of Beijing's Forbidden City. Cloaked in secrecy, this unholy alliance devises a twisted global plan, backed by China's growing nuclear arsenal, that will send America and the world to the brink of a gut-wrenching showdown.

In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ambitions are bound by the confines of her life with her self-seeking French father. When her way of life and the delicate balance of power in the town are threatened, she is forced to flee her home and become a woman on the run along with a motley crew of refugees, including a mysterious young woman named Teresa.

The year is 1815. Following the Battle of New Orleans, American naval officer Patrick Sullivan is given his first command and ordered to search the Caribbean for a rogue warship. The stakes are high, as failure could threaten the fragile new peace treaty between Britain and the United States. Blending fiction with meticulously researched history, author Andrew Costa presents the fourth installment in his series chronicling American military history, The Sullivan Saga.

Danger, deception, and buried secrets await in this pulse-pounding collection of three thrilling adventure novels set in the world’s most breathtaking—and treacherous—islands. Book 1: The Honeymooners – Newlywed archaeologists Charlie and Ella Colton stumble upon a priceless Mayan artifact in the Cayman Islands, only to find themselves caught between an antiquities thief, a private collector, and a wealthy seductress who will pay any price to reclaim the treasure. Can they solve the mystery before their honeymoon turns deadly? Book 2: The Tempest – The Samsara Resort and Spa is ...

While on his way to Porto Bello, Pieter Van Dijk, a young Dutch painter is taken captive by the feared pirate El Capitan Rojo. He discovers the pirate captain to be a fiery redhead who demands that he paint her portrait. In return, she tells him of the events that brought her to the command of the feared Scarlet Banshee. From a French convent school where she received her education, to the Spanish colony island where she lived with her Irish father, on to the secret pirate island somewhere in the Caribbean, Shalene O'Donnell lays bare her life. How she was taken captive and sold to be a ...

This photo-based tour includes over 115 pictures from historical locations from several countries in the Caribbean with short background histories. Featured locations include: the Puerto Rico Capitol, Castillo San Cristóbal, Castillo San Felipe del Morro, El Yunque National Forest, statues and pictures from around St. Maarten, Bloody River massacre site (St. Kitts), the remains of a sugar plantation (St. Kitts), Betty's Hope plantation and windmills (Antigua), Nelson's Dockyard (Antigua), Fort James (Antigua), St. John's Cathedral (Antigua), the Devil's Bridge (Antigua), a governor's ...

Phoebe Turlow needs to get out of Seattle and forget about the man she just divorced, her dwindling finances, and the lonely nights that stretch ahead of her. But she can't foresee what awaits her on Paradise Island. Duncan Rourke is known to historians as "the pirate patriot". He's been dead for two centuries - or at least he's supposed to be, until Phoebe Turlow steps out of a van, into a run-down island hotel, and into his world.

It is the dawn of the 18th century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. But two unusually adventurous girls (a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe) take to the high seas from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames Deliverance.

It's not about temptation — it's about survival. The last thing Julie Steffens needs after a season of research in the jungles of Central America is a gang of armed mercenaries after her for a crime she didn’t commit. And the last rescuer she wants is Seth Cooper, the sizzling vacation fling who disappeared from her bedside two months before. But right now, she needs a way out — and Seth’s sailboat is it. So what if the man kisses like a pirate just back in to port? It’s not about temptation; it’s about survival. Seth Cooper has traded the rat race for life in the slow lane — ...

For decades, a string of grisly, unsolved murders have devastated the Florida Keys. Sailors whisper tales of a pitiless seafarer known only as The Man of the Sea who prowls the nearby waters, carving his hostages into fishing bait before ebbing back into the shadows. Authorities have found no trace of him, but the death toll continues to rise. In the aftermath of a family tragedy, brothers Silas and Joe head to the Keys in search of a fresh start. Despite the local legends, things seem to finally be turning around for the brothers and their new fishing business. But as the clouds start to ...

1811. The Adriatic, the 'French Lake', is now the most valuable territory Napoleon Bonaparte possesses. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd finds his glorious return to England cut short when the Admiralty summons him to lead a squadron of frigates into these waters to cause havoc and distress to the enemy. Kydd is dubbed 'The Sea Devil' by Bonaparte who personally appoints one of his favourites, Dubourdieu, along with a fleet that greatly outweighs the British, to rid him of this menace.

Modern Pirate Series of eBook shorts: A collection of stories about Alex the Pirate and his savvy crew of rogues and thieves. They are modern pirates who love fast boats and expensive yachts, and also share a passion for treasure hunting. Alex and Diego, his second in command, scout the South China Sea and Caribbean for worthy ships to liberate from their owners and turn a profit. Each story reveals more about the pirate, his crew, their adventures, and secret missions. Grenada Blood & Nazi Treasure Alex and Chen dive into a sunken Nazi submarine abandoned after the World War II and find ...

Lauren Grayson has investigated Bigfoot, the Mayan apocalypse, even UFOs. But she never expected to find herself at the mercy of pirates… When the Oceanic Channel's newest research vessel, the Explorer of the Deep, goes missing on its maiden voyage to the Bermuda Triangle, television investigator Dr. Lauren Grayson and the Veritas Codex Crew are asked to investigate. Paired with oceanographer Trevor Thorpe and his crew from sister-show Expedition: Nautilus, they set off to find the network’s missing million-dollar ship. Soon after they embark, a mysterious storm descends and the ...

Ranging from the Vikings and Wako pirates in the Middle Ages to modern day Somali pirates, Lehr delves deep into what motivates pirates and how they operate. He also illuminates the state's role in the development of piracy throughout history: from privateers sanctioned by Queen Elizabeth to pirates operating off the coast of Africa taking the law into their own hands. After exploring the structural failures which create fertile ground for pirate activities, Lehr evaluates the success of counter-piracy efforts - and the reasons behind its failures.

“Newman WRITES with a FLAMETHROWER.” — Timothy Hallinan “Newman is the strange new NORMAL.” — Sliced Magazine “WITNESS the flowering of increasingly evil acts.” — Alasdair McLeod “Newman is still capable of throwing flames.” — People, Things, and Literature “Newman’s prose is a bombardment.” — The Nation “It’s bright lights and dark shadows... certainly not for the fainthearted.” — Paul Brazill London, 1701. On the day Captain Kidd is executed for piracy, young street thieves Johnny and Rake stumble upon a map said to lead to Kidd’s hidden treasure....

"How can I know what your word is worth. You're a pirate." Captain Ezekiel Jones thinks he's just won the ship Red Coral from Captain Argus the Black in a poker game, instead he's won much more... a historical sweet pirate romance 1st place winner Pirate themed story 2011