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

"Wait!" Kent shouted. "Tell him to wait!"


Morris crossed brawny arms over his chest and smirked.


"What did you say?" Morris cupped a hand around his injured ear. "I don't think I heard you."


"Myself instead of her and the babe," Kent panted, writhing in the pirates' clutches. He'd uttered the words without thinking but knew no amount of thought or time would alter his decision.


Morris bent over in laughter. "Why I'll be a half-masted monkey. I never thought I'd see the day."


Jerking free from one pirate, Kent kicked the next one, sending the man tumbling to the ground several feet away, and then slugged the third pirate with his free hand. The fourth man flung himself atop Kent, grinding his face into the dirt.


"Blast! Can't the four of you hold down one man? Let him up," Morris said, shaking his head. "He's not going anywhere."


The pirate on top of Kent hastily complied. Another pirate dabbed at the blood spilling from his mouth.


Chapter 153: The Restitution, Part 1