The Iron Rose Quotes

“When I came up the beach back there, do you have any idea how close you came to being thrown down in the sand and ravished there and then, before your mother, your father... before God Himself?”

“They would have killed you if you’d tried.”

He smiled. “I doubt that. In fact, it was your mother who suggested I just drag you off into the bushes and keep you there until you came to your senses. She said that was the only way your father managed to convince her she could be stronger with him than without him.”
― Marsha Canham, The Iron Rose

“I have always found it puzzling that men believe it perfectly acceptable to take their pleasure where they may without guilt or recriminations, but when women do the same, they are branded whores and trulls.”
― Marsha Canham, The Iron Rose

“Most ships ran up as many sheets as they could carry and fled before the wind, for to see the Iron Rose's pyramid of canvas turning into the chase, usually meant her brother's ships, the Tribute and the Valor were not far off her beam. And woe betide the arrogant captain of any vessel who thought only to shake off the three pups pursuing him; chances were better than nine out of ten that the Pirate Wolf himself, Simon Dante, would have already circled his Avenger around to lie in wait off their bows.”
― Marsha Canham, The Iron Rose

“Jesus God!” His fingers sprang open, releasing her. They rose to gingerly probe the lump at back of his skull and he groaned again.

The sound was echoed by the body crushed beneath him.

“Beacom?” A lavender arm lifted to see what was beneath. “Good God, man, what are you doing under there?”

“Waiting for you to rouse, your grace,” came the gasped reply. “Hoping that in your boundless compassion, you might even be willing to heave off me!”
― Marsha Canham, The Iron Rose

“There’s a hole as big as Lucifer’s arse in the hull where the powder barrels blew out,”
― Marsha Canham, The Iron Rose