Beneath Black Sails (Beneath Black Sails, #1)

by Clare Sager

His skin burned. He’d only wanted to catch her for the handsome bounty but now… Barking hoarse orders, he gripped the rail, knuckles aching and white. Now, she’d made it personal.

had been too long since she’d felt a lover’s arms, lips—or anything else for that matter—and touching him had sent her spinning off course, dizzy as a teenage girl.

“Well,” he went on, “add in an absconding fiancée and being forced from our home, and I think it’s fair to say it was a difficult year.” The fiancée had left months before Father’s death, and she hadn’t exactly broken his heart. The betrothal to Lady Avice Ferrers had been arranged by Mother and Father. It struck him later that Father had intended to use her dowry to clear his debts. No romance, simply a matter of family duty.

Because my ‘help’ is just a way of getting you back to Albion without you realising and escaping.

“Captain Blackwood…” Somehow formality felt safer, but damn it, did she want to be safe? “If I didn’t know better, I’d say you’re looking at me like you want to kiss me.” His fingers twitched against her.

“I do.”

Just like the reef, bodies came in hundreds, thousands of different forms, and she’d never seen one that wasn’t beautiful.

“I thought the Pirate Queen would appreciate a man kneeling for her.” With a flash of

grin, he nudged her thighs apart and, Wild Hunt, she was not about to stop him.