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

Kent held a pistol to Morris' head. Armed enemies surrounded him. He was either the bravest man Isabel had known or the most foolish. At the moment, as a pinprick of hope tingled within her, she opted for the former. He risked his life for herfor her sonand that alone made him golden in her eyes.


Morris narrowed his gaze while a grin tugged at his lips. "You plan to stop more than a hundred men with that one little pistol?"


"No. I plan to stop you." Kent tossed sweaty strands of hair from his face. "After that it won't matter." He glanced behind him at the pirates inching toward him. "You know I'm a good shot, Morris, and it'll take only one bullet to pierce that thick skull of yours."


Wiping the sweat from his brow, Morris glanced up at the men strew across the yards of his ship. His eyelids fluttered in a silent nod, and Isabel spotted a man aiming his musket at Kent. Alarm raged through her heart.


Chapter 143: Darkest before the Dawn