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Ilona Black is the oldest daughter of the Pirate King. All her life, she's wanted to be a great pirate captain, just like her father. When she's finally given the chance, however, things go terribly wrong- Ilona's younger siblings have been captured and now it's up to her to get them back.

All hope seems lost until she happens to meet the wickedly handsome Prince Mason who is having his own bad luck. He has been promised to marry a princess who he is quite certain is evil. He has no way to escape the marriage but once he meets the beautiful pirate Captain he comes up with a plan that will help them both. He will marry the daughter of the cruel king who took Ilona's siblings.

They sail away and the plan seems perfect. Mason will escape the evil princess and Ilona will get her siblings back.

But what happens when they start to fall for each other and put their whole plan in jeopardy? And what if their ship never reaches its destination at all?

The Prince and The Pirate

The Pirate King's Doctor, a steely older man with a bushy mustache and equally bushy eyebrows, stepped in front of Mason, ignoring Ilona so she had to move quickly out of his way to avoid being knocked over.

The Prince sat up now that his stitches were finished, but the Doctor wasn't done with him yet.  The man asked Mason a handful of questions and gave him little tests.  Mason answered, but his gaze kept flickering back to Ilona.

It had been risky complimenting her on her appearance, he knew, after all she had said in the barn the night of the storm.  The words had come out of his mouth before he had thought them through though, a reoccurring problem for him.

He had expected the woman to react in anger, ripping her hand from his and using that sharp tongue of hers to cut him down.  She hadn't though.  She had just looked surprised.

Isaiah Black