Pirate Ship

This thrilling companion to Iain Lawrence's award-winning The Wreckers and The Smugglers plunges listeners into high-sea action and intrigue. After 17-year-old John Spencer sets out on his first voyage to foreign lands, he and his crew are wary when they come across a stranger named Horn rowing a lifeboat in the middle of nowhere. What is the man hiding?

ONE MOMENT QUEEN... THE NEXT, OUTCAST Surela Silin Asaniefa was convinced she could rule the Eldritch people better than her enemy, Liolesa Galare, and for ten whole days following her coup, she made the attempt—and failed. Resigned to her death as a traitor, she was given a choice by the Queen’s newest protege, Reese Eddings: to be executed, or to accept a commuted sentence and attempt to rebuild her life and make amends for her crimes. To die would have been the act of a dramatic maiden, and as a woman of more sense and years, Surela chooses instead to see what she can make of herself...

Love pirates? I love pirates. I really love pirates. I also really love scary stories about witches, ghosts, and other things that allegedly go “bump in the night”. So, it should not surprise anyone that I came up with a collection of scary pirate tales. What might surprise you is that some of these tales are loosely based on actual events with my own spin of superstition and shadow. Certainly, enjoy the tales for what they are; but, if you want to know where some of these rather frightening and disturbing plots came from, see the What’s Real and What Isn’t section in the back of ...

Aric Athair is dead. But the fight for the Bullet Seas is far from over. Caledonia's nemesis, Lir - the one responsible for getting her parents killed and for turning her brother into a Bullet - has seized control of the warlord's army. Caledonia and her crew have fled to Cloudbreak to prepare for an all-out war. And they are not the only ones. Defecting soldiers begin to show up in droves to join their fight. But just as it seems like the tides might be turning, a surprise attack decimates the growing rebellion.

Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history - or certain death.

Seizing the Tiger It’s 1996 and Alex the Pirate hates having his smuggled goods ripped off on the high seas. Colonel Le, another pirate, got the drop on him and he is vastly outgunned in his wooden-hulled tongkang in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand. Le smirks as he steals Alex’s valuable cargo and powers away to leave Alex and crew drifting on their damaged craft at sea. Alex and his friend Diego know that vengeance is a dish best served cold. Le will pay for his treachery—the hard way. And maybe they will seize the cutthroat’s prize boat—the one they call the Tiger. The first ...

Hunting for pirate treasure has never been more romantic. Or funny. Chase Regard is captain of the nearly-historically-accurate pirate ship Cupid’s Revenge, a pirate-themed restaurant and dinner show, and the mountain of debt that came with both. But Chase has an ace up his sleeve: his ancestor left a heap of treasure somewhere on the coast near Ashville, Oregon. All Chase needs to find it is the help of Dr. Jenna Mackenzie, the director of the Ashville Museum. Red-headed Jenna is a fiery, and only occasionally forgetful, academic who loves her quirky small town. But the lure of treasure...

Architect Jonathan West is on a big project when he learns his wife, Patrice, has been unfaithful. On a fishing trip in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, he’s wondering what to do about his marriage when he sees a ghost ship. On it is a spectral woman, gazing at him with a plea in her eyes. Jonathan buys a house on the beach near the sighting and finds an old sea chest washed up there. Its contents, which include a miniature portrait, reveal it belonged to Kate Russell, captain of the Royal Thomas, which sank in 1721. It’s the same woman Jonathan saw on the ghost ship, and her journal ...

Restless Tiger A Long short Story Alex and Diego are busy smuggling contraband north across the sea to Vietnam and Cambodia and bringing refugees south across the Gulf of Thailand in early 1998. They find that running a fleet of twelve boats is hard enough, but piracy is rampant on the water. They are also hijacking ships at sea to liberate them of their cargo and turn a profit. And then there is their old scourge, the Frenchman, back on the attack. They have to teach him a lesson and exact revenge for murdered crewmen in the last nasty sea encounter. But how? The third of a collection of ...

The Silver Knight Alex and crew capture a multimillion-dollar sailing yacht and hold it for ransom. The wife and daughter of well-known billionaire Victor Spartos are held as collateral while Alex negotiates the ransom. Spartos refuses to meet the demands and Alex resorts to other measures to make him comply. Mouth of the Dragon While smuggling humanitarian aid and medical supplies into Venezuela, Alex and Diego find a boat full of refugees trying to flee the horrors of Venezuela and sail to Trinidad for safety. The refugees are ill-prepared for the voyage as a storm threatens to overwhelm ...

From the casinos of the wild west frontier-town Tylas to the dark reaches of the Muridon Belt, space rebel Jet Rusco and his misfit crew find trouble around every corner. Gangster Sharki is on their tail. Old enemies from Rusco’s past have finally caught up with him. The discovery of an ancient treasure sparks the beginnings of an all-out war in the Vala System. Can Rusco outwit his enemies and make peace with the tumultuous past? The fate of the solar system hinges on the part he plays… A gritty odyssey to faraway worlds... Other books in the Starship Rogue series: Star Runaway Star ...

Follow the Paragon treasure hunters as they set out to find even more lost gold and silver. After finding more than they could possibly use in a lifetime, they opted to get their foundation up and running. Soon though corporate greed catches up with them and could end in disaster for the team. Will good triumph over evil once again? Or are they fated to lose everything including their lives.

“Captain Drake! Captain Drake!” He looked up…it was Karina, even more beautiful in the moonlight, coming straight toward him with her arm extended and holding something shiny in her hand that he recognized as the missing gold cufflink. He increased his pace, and as he reached for the cufflink with his left hand, the touch ignited him with a sudden desire to feel her soft, full lips and, in one swift moment, wrapped his right arm around her waist, arching her back slightly as he covered her lips with his own, the arresting moment caused Karina to let out a small moan as she fell into ...

A band of pirates are about to hijack a cargo ship in the South China Sea. The ship is carrying valuable cargo and a dozen passengers on holiday. The pirates will resort to robbery, kidnapping, ransom and murder. Unknown to the pirates is that one of the passengers is Henry Olson. Henry is a martial expert and former Olympic champion on his way to compete in the 1995 Kumite world championships in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. It’s now Henry against fifteen armed ruthless pirates! The action never stops! Barwell Hollings brings you this exciting sequel to Henry’s Challenge.

History and legend remember many pirate stories and captains - but until now not the true story about the pirate crew who seized the most valuable treasure hoard ever taken on the high seas! In the year 1721, a British pirate captain named John Taylor, accompanied by a French captain nicknamed The Buzzard, seized the richest single booty ever to come into pirate hands. The Diamond Ship follows the true journey of this band of unruly pirates, in a story which until now has lain buried for three centuries in odd pieces of parchment and random scraps of marine diaries.

Ex-CIA agent Quentin Malloy has faced many opponents and serious crimes in Michael Ferrier’s previous novels: the Russians, the Chinese, the drug cartels, and unexplained murders in Grand Cayman. But this time, it’s personal. His only living blood relative, his niece, becomes embroiled in a deadly battle over valuable collector coins, whilst her marriage crumbles after compromising photographs of her surface. As Malloy battles to save her from danger, his wife attempts to repair the niece’s tattered love life. In this web of intrigue, you will also learn about the fate of the frigate ...

Since his childhood in the Deepwoods, young Twig has always longed to soar above the forest canopy and explore the sky. Now a lowly crew member on his father's sky pirate ship, the Stormchaser, his dream seems fulfilled. But a much higher destiny awaits Twig as plots and treacheries from many years ago bring the lofty city of Sanctaphrax, home of the Edgeworld's most learned academics, to the point of disaster.

Set sail for adventure with the bravest bird in the skies! Percy the Pirate Parrot is no ordinary bird! With his bright red feathers, stylish eye patch, and tiny pirate hat, he leads his loyal crew—Squawkbeard, Jolly Beak, and Polly Patch—aboard their magnificent flying ship, The Feathered Fortune. After discovering the legendary treasure of Black Raven on Skullwing Isle, Percy finds a mysterious map hidden inside the pirate king's crown. It leads to something even more valuable than gold—the Mystic Feather, said to grant its owner the power to command the winds themselves! But the ...

Three children, banished by the Night Fairy to a deserted island for frequent fighting with their siblings, must find their way back home using their wits. Their adventures include a voyage onboard a one-of-a-kind ship, where they get stuck in the timeline; fight pirates; and meet a multitude of leprechauns, a fire-spewing dragon, a knight astride a lion, and the Night Fairy herself.

In this novel, the story of the life of Simón Romero, better known as Ali the Canary, one of the most important corsairs of the 17th century who sailed the Mediterranean and Atlantic to the coasts of Portugal, is recounted. Ali Romero, also known by this name, was born in 1639 on Triana Street in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, and at the age of 16, he was captured by an Algerian corsair while fishing on the Barbary Coast in Africa. Thanks to his bravery and skill, he made a name for himself among the corsairs, bought his freedom, and began to work as a corsair in Algiers...