‘Buccaneer’ now only 0.99p!

Great news! The first book in my Molucca Star Quartet has been selected by Amazon for a Kindle monthly deal. That means you can pick up the thrilling first installment in my saga of pirates and smugglers for just 99p for the rest of May 2024! (UK only, I’m afraid).

Buccaneer: The Early Life and Crimes of Philip Rake was a real passion project for me as I was infatuated with pirates as a child after seeing Disney’s Treasure Island (1950) and I had always wanted to write a rollicking pirate adventure story of my own. So, if you’re in the UK, check out the blurb and link below and grab your copy for only 99p and join the adventure!

Bristol, 1713. When Philip Rake, pickpocket, smuggler and scoundrel is arrested and thrown in jail, he assumes he has a short walk to the gallows. But his father, a wealthy merchant who has remained a figure of mystery throughout his life, throws him a lifeline; become an indentured man on an expedition to the East Indies led by his friend, Woodes Rogers.

Woodes Rogers is looking for Libertatia – the fabled pirate kingdom of the legendary buccaneer Henry Avery – and the hoard of treasure rumoured to be hidden there. But Philip wants his freedom and when he learns that there are men onboard who once sailed with Henry Avery and plan to take the treasure for themselves, he jumps ship and embarks upon a career of piracy.

Philip’s story takes him from the backstreets of Bristol to the sun-baked hills of Madagascar and on to the tropical islands of the Caribbean in a thrilling tale of adventure in which he rubs shoulders with some of the most notorious pirates of the age including Blackbeard, Charles Vane, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Get your copy here!