Legacy of the King's Pirates
A Christy Award finalist and winner of two Inspirational Readers’ Choice awards, MaryLu Tyndall dreamt of tall ships and swashbuckling heroes during her childhood years on Florida’s Atlantic Coast. She holds a degree in Math and worked as a software engineer for fifteen years before she penned her first novel. Now, with more than twenty-five books published, she makes her home in California with her husband, six children, four grandchildren and various stray cats. Her hope is that readers will not only be entertained but will be brought closer to the Creator who loves them beyond measure. For more information, visit her website at marylutyndall.com
Charlisse Bristol sets off on a voyage in search of a father she never knew, only to become shipwrecked on an island. She longs for a father’s love to fill the emptiness in her soul from an abusive childhood, but resigns herself to a lonely death of starvation. Her salvation comes in the form of a band of pirates and their fierce, enigmatic leader, Captain Merrick.
The last thing Merrick expected to find in the middle of the Caribbean was a beautiful maiden. Now he is burdened with the task of not only protecting her from his crew, but from himself. A recent convert to Christianity, Merrick is haunted by a sordid past while he struggles to become a better man and accepts a mission from God to hunt down the most vicious pirates on the Caribbean.
Charlisse can make no sense of Captain Merrick. A pirate who prays and drinks rum? Breaking her vow to never trust any man, she finds herself falling for the pirate/priest, who more than once risks his life to save her. When she confides in him her quest to find her father, Merrick agrees to help. What he doesn’t realize is Charlisse’s father is the ruthless Edward the Terror, the one man Merrick has vowed to hunt down and kill.
Evil forces are at work against Charlisse and Merrick: enemies, battles, imprisonment, jealousy, and betrayal, all threaten to destroy not only their new found romance but their very lives. It will take a miracle—or several—for either of them to survive.
Wow! 🤩 this really is such a fantastic book, a hidden gem for sure. I was utterly captivated with the story from the first chapter. This book is beautifully written on all accounts and the author deserves very high praise for this magnificent work. The plot is very well thought out from start to finish. With the twists and turns it leads your emotions into a frantic array never knowing what might come next. You get a true sense for the historical time period in which this book is set and I particularly enjoyed that aspect as it remains consistent throughout and it must have taken a lot of knowledge on the topic for it to be written in this way. The main characters are well fleshed out to give you a proper sense of who they are and there is a nice diversity of personalities among them. The attention given to every little detail is truly a delight to read and the scenes which your mind creates while reading this book are absolutely spectacular. I felt like I had a movie playing within my head and once I began reading it was incredibly hard to tear myself away from it. I would highly recommend giving this book a try, it’s very well worth it in my opinion. 👍🏻
Don't know how this won any awards, given how the basic premise was wrong. The Two words 'King's' and 'pirates' should never be placed together. The correct term is 'privateer', a legal pirate. Pirates are the enemies of the State, whereas privateers are the tools they utilize (shamelessly)