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.


Legacy of the King's Pirates

"To battle, men!" Merrick shouted, sending his crew swarming back over the bulwarks. The clank of sword and crack of pistol accompanied the roar of thunder above as Merrick shoved his way toward Kent.


With one hand, he wrenched the knife from Kent's grasp while with the other, he struck him in the jaw. Kent toppled to the deck.


Charlisse rushed into Merrick's arms, sobbing.


"You're all right now," He engulfed her in his embrace, keeping an eye on Kent, who floundered on the deck like a fish out of water.


Plucking a handkerchief from his pocket, Merrick pressed it on Charlisse's neck, relieved the wound did not appear too deep. He wiped away her tears with his thumb. Nothing but appreciation and love reflected in her liquid-blue eyes. Drawing her near, he kissed her forehead and waited for her shuddering to cease.


Instead, she pushed from him with a shriek and ran to her father's side. "How could I have forgotten?" Kneeling, she took his hand in hers.


Chapter 45: Oh death, Where is thy Sting?