ROMANCE
ON THE HIGH SEAS
SEVEN
SWASHBUCKLING PIRATE ROMANCES BY
SEVEN
PIRATE WENCHES:
Katherine
Bone
Jennifer
Bray-Weber
Barbara
Devlin
Chloe
Flowers
Danelle
Harmon
Amanda
Mariel
Kamery
Solomon
PREPARE TO BE
BOARDED.
If you love
historical romance, pirates, adventure and thrills, you'll love this
7-book set by these award winning and best selling pirate romance
authors!
The Pirate’s Debt
by National Best-selling Author Katherine Bone:
An
earl-turned pirate is ordered by his benefactor to find an
adventurous young runaway and return her home.To do so, he must
retrieve her without being discovered by the most ruthless pirate
hunter on the seas: her brother.
Dead Man’s Kiss by
Award Winning Author Jennifer Bray-Weber:
Eight
weeks. That’s all pirate captain Valeryn Barone has to escort a
tempting naturalist untouched across the Caribbean or face the
gallows. Can he resist the beauty who’s fallen for him? Does a dead
man walking even have a chance?
The Black Morass by
USA Today Bestselling Author Barbara Devlin:
In
exchange for a chance at redemption and pardons for his crew, Jean
Marc Cavalier accepts a pact that could result in liberty or death,
if only he can survive the terms, but at least he will be free.
Pirate Heiress by
Award Winning Author Chloe Flowers:
Captain
Conal O’Brien has already lost control of his ship to the most
unlikely band of pirates sailing the seas. If he’s not careful,
he’s going to lose his heart to a notorious lady pirate
determined to destroy both.
My Lady Pirate by
NYTimes Bestselling Author Danelle Harmon:
The sea delivers a
handsome castaway to Pirate Queen Maeve Merrick’s island. But her
handsome prisoner harbors secrets dark enough to change the fates of
nations and threatens their new found love.
Captivated by the
Captain by USA Today Bestselling Author Amanda Mariel:
What
happens when an American shipping company heiress crosses
paths with a pirate? Can two people whose life paths are at odds find
common ground?
Carried Away by
Kamery Solomon:
After
falling through time and being forced to join a pirate crew, Mark
Bell falls in love with his fellow time traveler, Samantha. She's a
woman he can't have, though. Will their presence in the past alter
the future they know and love?
Katherine
Bone
National
Bestselling Historical Romance Author Katherine Bone has been
passionate about history since she had the opportunity to travel to
various Army bases, castles, battlegrounds, and cathedrals as an Army
brat turned Officer's Wife. Who knew that an Army wife's passion for
romance novels would lead to pirates? Certainly not her rogue, whose
Alma Mater's adage is "Go Army. Beat Navy!" Now enjoying
the best of both worlds, Katherine lives with her rogue in the south
where she writes about rogues, rebels and rakes, aka pirates, spies,
the Royal Navy, and duty, honor, and country and the happily ever
afters every alpha male and lady deserve.
As
an Army wife raising four children, romance helped Katherine weather
loneliness. Now she hopes to pay it forward, to ease readers’
burdens by taking them on a swashbuckling, adventurous voyage into
historical romance and beyond.
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Chloe
Flowers
A
Parrothead at heart, Chloe’s love for pirates began with Peter Pan
and continued with Pirates of the Caribbean and ghost stories about
pirates from the Outer Banks. She listens to Celtic music while she
writes. When life gets too serious, she reads Calvin and Hobbes
comics. She lives in Ohio with her tall, dark and handsome husband,
three children and two rambunctious dogs, Indiana and Luke, who are
named after her two favorite action heroes.
Descended
from a family of cooks and gourmet chefs, Chloe is a true foodie and
along with working for fortune 500 companies in marketing and
teaching MBA students strategic marketing, she also ran a gourmet
cookie company. Cooking for a crowd runs in the blood, so her fridge
is always full. She deals with stress by baking pies (just ask her
college roommates what it was like for them around exam time).
Her
idea of a perfect day? Sailing on the Caribbean with her family, sun
in her face and wind at her back, and finishing the day in the
kitchen making a fab gourmet meal and sipping a glass of wine.
The
Pirates & Petticoats Series is about spunky heroines and the
scoundrels who love them.
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Jennifer
Bray-Weber
Award-winning
author Jennifer Bray-Weber is a proud native Texan. She is a married
domestic goddess/beach bum with two beautiful daughters. Holding two
degrees, one is Music and Video Business, the other in Liberal Arts,
she has been able to express her creative thinking through countless
questionable, often hilarious, life experiences.
Her
interests include writing, reading, traveling (what she likes to call
"research"), horseback riding, scrapbooking, shopping,
relaxing at the beach, and dares.
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Barbara
Devlin
USA
Today bestselling, Amazon All-Star author Barbara Devlin was born a
storyteller, but it was a weeklong vacation to Bethany Beach, DE that
forever changed her life. The little house her parents rented had a
collection of books by Kathleen Woodiwiss, which exposed Barbara to
the world of romance, and Shanna remains a personal favorite. Barbara
writes heartfelt historical romances that feature flawed heroes who
may know how to seduce a woman but know nothing of marriage. And she
prefers feisty but smart heroines who sometimes save the hero, before
they find their happily ever after. Barbara earned an MA in English
and continued a course of study for a Doctorate in Literature and
Rhetoric. She happily considered herself an exceedingly eccentric
English professor, until success in Indie publishing lured her into
writing, full-time, featuring her fictional knighthood, the Brethren
of the Coast.
Danelle
Harmon
First
published in 1991, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
Danelle Harmon has written sixteen books, with many distributed in
various languages throughout the world. She and her family make their
home in New England with a menagerie including four dogs, an Egyptian
Arabian horse, and pet chickens.
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Amanda
Mariel
USA
Today Bestselling author Amanda Mariel dreams of days gone by when
life moved at a slower pace. She enjoys taking pen to paper and
exploring historical time periods through her imagination and the
written word. When she is not writing she can be found reading,
crocheting, traveling, practicing her photography skills, or spending
time with her family.
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Kamery
Solomon
Kamery
is not the person who grew up dreaming of the day that she would
clutch her very own novel to her chest, tears brimming over the rims
of her eyes as she thought about how she'd written it herself,
finally! In fact, anything remotely like that didn't even happen
until she was actually holding her first book in her hand, amazed
that she'd written it and wondering how on Earth she'd managed to do
it when it hadn't ever occurred to her to write one until months
before. Surprisingly, though, it was just what she never realized she
loved doing.
When
starting out in life, Kamery had (and still has) big dreams to
perform on Broadway. She loves music and acting very much, while she
and dance have a love/hate relationship; she would love to do it and
every form of dance decides it hates that about her, haha! The one
constant she always had between the performing world and the book
world were the stories, tales that transported her to other worlds
and made her feel like she really could do anything. Finally, she
decided she wanted to do that for someone else and sat down to write.
It's
been a few years since she held that first book, realizing that she
really liked writing and wanted to do more, but the love that
blossomed in that moment has only grown. Currently, Kamery works from
home in Arizona, while taking care of her two adorable kids, a girl
and a boy, and talking her sweet husband Jake's ear off about the
insane amount of characters in her head who are ready to fight to the
death for a chance at their own novels. It truly is a wonderful life!
It’s
a Treasure Hunt!
Grand
prize: Kindle Fire, carrying case, $20 Amazon gift card, wine charms,
coasters, a Root candle, Pirate bandana, playing cards, autographed
copies of pirate romances by the authors of the boxed set, and other
booty! Valued at $175
Runner
up Prize: Various signed books, $20 Amazon Gift Card and some
nautical fun pirate booty!
To
WIN THE GRAND PRIZE: Read the short 200 word story. One
line of the story will be revealed on the Romance on the High Seas
page on each blog on the tour. At the end of the tour, simply answer
the question: “What started it all?”
Ahoy
me treasure hunting hearties! Your treasure hunt word or phrase for
this blog is:
So sit yer arse down
So sit yer arse down
Grand Prize!
Runner Up Prize!
An Interview with Authors from the Romance on the High Seas Box Set
If you could meet any pirate, who would it be and why?
“Black” Sam Bellamy, the dark and romantic captain of the pirate ship Whydah which wrecked in a gale on 26 April, 1717 off the treacherous outer coast of Cape Cod. Bellamy was supposedly enroute to lay a fabulous treasure at the feet of his sweetheart, Cape Cod girl Maria Hallett, but died almost at her very doorstep in the wreck. In the 1980s, Barry Clifford found the sunken wreck of Whydah in shallow water off the coast of Wellfleet and is still recovering her treasures to this day, all of which have greatly expanded our knowledge of pirates and the lives they lived. As a local gal, I was fascinated by the tragic story of Sam Bellamy and Maria Hallett, and decided to give them the happy ending they deserved but never got. The result was Pirate In My Arms, my first published novel (Avon, 1991). (NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Danelle Harmon)
What hobbies or pastimes keep you afloat when you’re not writing?
I’m never not writing. (USA Today Bestselling Author Barbara Devlin)
If you could be a character in Pirates of the Caribbean, what or who would it be and why?
Calypso! Only because my kids and I quote her with her Jamaican accent all the time. “What will him choose? Him heart?” and “It’s my nature.” Except you have to say it like this: Eets mah neeecha.” (USA Today Bestselling Author Amanda Mariel)
You are forced to live on a desert island for six months. Food and bare survival equipment will be provided but that is all. You can take one person and five items to relieve the boredom and enhance the experience. Who is the person and what are the items?
Leonardo DeVinci, an Italian-English dictionary, a telescope, a pad of drawing paper and a pack of pencils. Why? The man was a brilliant mathematician, engineer, artist, astronomer and scientist. How could there possible be a boring minute when in his presence? (Chloe Flowers)
Do you have a favorite pirate or nautical quote?
“A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” (Kamery Solomon)
If you could bring one of your characters to life, which one would it be and why? Blade Tyburn from A Kiss in the Wind. Not only is he charismatic, cunning, dangerous, witty, trustworthy, and an all-around bad boy, I fell in love with him as I wrote him. He had become very real to me. So much so, one night as I was looking at the nighttime sky while on the beach, I thought, “Wow. Those are the same stars Blade saw nearly 3 centuries ago.” (Jennifer Bray-Weber)
If you could sail back in time, where would you go? Would you live there or just visit for a while?
Oh, this is a FANtastic question. I’d sail back to late 1801 as Admiral Nelson was ordered to protect England’s shores. He’d just recovered from another onset of malaria and had been ordered to take his ease in England. He and Lady Emma Hamilton had just purchased a home in Merton. I would have loved to have been able to meet him. He’d suffered so much by this time, losing an eye and his arm. His courage and stamina have always inspired me. (Katherine Bone)
Pirate Heiress by Chloe Flowers Excerpt:
“Where are you taking us?”
Drago looked up into the red-rimmed, grey eyes of the eight-year old girl standing a few feet away. It was a good thing she wasn’t armed or he would have been in trouble. He’d not heard a sound or caught a single movement during her transition from his bed to the area in front of his desk. Perhaps she wasn’t as docile as she’d appeared.
“South,” he answered.
She pressed her lips into a thin line. Her nostrils flared. “South to where?”
“A place called Lamb’s Tail Island,” he answered, studying his chart.
“And where, exactly, is Lamb’s Tail Island?”
He inhaled and let his breath out slowly. “Off the eastern coat of Jamaica.” He turned his attention back to his charts without waiting for her answer.
She leaned forward and mimicked the tone almost exactly. “Why did you make my family steal the Seeker?”
He sat back in his chair. “If I told you, would you stop asking questions and let me get back to my charts?”
She shrugged, which he took as a ‘no.’
“What’s your name, little petticoat?”
“Jacqueline Louisa Sauvage. What’s yours?”
“Drago Vitieri Gamponetti. You may call me Gampo.”
“Well, Mister Gampo—”
“No. Captain Gampo.”
“Fine. Well, Captain Gampo, why do you want the Seeker?”
Drago took a deep breath to prevent himself from shouting in frustration, which he was absolutely sure would give the little chit a great deal of satisfaction.
“I’m doing my duty to my employer, the king of France, for one. And for two, the Seeker is one of three ships in a certain merchant fleet.” She opened her mouth, and he held up an index finger. “And before you ask, the captain is my sworn enemy.” He switched from an index finger to the palm of his hand, causing her once again to close her mouth. “He knows where my sister can be found.”
The silence following his statement was disturbing.
And distracting.
And annoying.
He looked up.
“How long have you been looking for your sister?”
So family was important to her. Good.
“A long time.” He stared out the window at the wake following the vessel. “She might be dead by now.”
“How do you know?”
“I don’t.”
She cocked her head to the side and drew her brows together in consternation. “Why don’t you simply ask your sworn enemy?”
He rubbed his forehead with the heels of his palms. He’d once fancied having children of his own, but this little chit was quickly curing him of that affliction.
“Why do you have my family doing your duty?” Again, her arms crossed her chest and she presented him the same type of look his mother would have given him.
Drago put his palms on his desk to prevent himself from putting them around her little neck. He narrowed his eyes and lowered his voice to what his crew would know was a dangerous level. “If you want to see your family again, you’d better mind your mouth, little lamb, otherwise I’ll have you strung up from the yardarm. It’s much harder to talk with a rope around your neck.”
She lifted her chin and threw her shoulders back. “You can’t do that. If you break your end of the bargain, my family won’t give you that ship you want.”
“Aye, I promised they can have you and your brother back, but I didn’t tell them they’d get you back alive.”
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