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

Enger hammered through Isabel. Going back to Port Royal? She had not felt the ship turn, but perhaps she wouldn't have sensed it in the throes of the storm. Surely Kent would not be so cruel as to abandon the search for their son?


In one leap, Cutter bounded from his chair. "Marrying Sawkins? Of all the preposterous notions!" The scar on his upper lip curled as a snicker escaped his mouth.


Embarrassment stung Isabel. "I'm afraid it's true."


"I'll explain later." Isabel faced Murdock. "Who told you this?"


"Lord Sawkins, milady." His eyes shifted from Cutter to Isabel. "He sent me to tell ye. Said he thought ye should know."


Confusion and anger battled within her. The only way the captain could have found out about her betrothal would have been by Sawkins' own lips. Why would he purposely cause such discord? "Why didn't his lordship come to tell me himself?"


Chapter 137: Chivalry is not Dead