A Star to Sail By releases 30th August

I’ve been having far more fun that should be legal messing about with pirates for my next book. And the Royal Navy, a little. A Star to Sail By is set in the Caribbean in 1714, during the Golden Age of Piracy. I was working on it during the heatwave we had in the UK earlier in the summer, which helped enormously in imagining what my characters were going through!

I’m looking forward to sharing Billy and Crispin’s adventures with you as they yo-ho-ho across the seven seas, drinking copious amounts of rum as they go.

Abducted by pirates, a naval officer must choose between duty and desire.

All Crispin Merrick has ever wanted is to be a captain in the Royal Navy. On half-pay after the war, he’s reduced to serving on a merchant ship. When pirates board his ship and force Crispin to join their crew, his dream has never seemed further away.

Billy loves the freedom he has as a pirate. As master gunner aboard the most beautiful ship to sail the seas, he couldn’t be happier. But then his captain tasks him with guarding the naval officer they’ve taken on board. Billy loathes the navy. He hates its officers even more.

Crispin is looking for a way to escape when disaster strikes the ship. Beset by danger, Billy and Crispin have to work together. But how can they trust one another when they detest everything the other stands for?

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