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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 moon shone down on the ship as Ilona stood alone facing her Quarter Master.  The ghostly light seemed to somehow highlight the fact that Mason was gone.  He'd left her there and he wouldn't be coming back.  She had only just gotten him and now she'd lost him already.

"How could you?" Ilona hissed, glaring at Pierce Vane through her tear-filled eyes, "I told you not to tell him!  I was going to tell him!"

The greasy little man stared at her, trying to hide the amusement from his beetle-like eyes.  His cup of rum now sat abandoned on a barrel beside him, leaving his hands free to rest on the hilt of his wide sword.  Ilona wished she'd worn her own blades but knew if she had, she likely would have drawn them on the man by now.

"Forgive me, Captain, but I assumed you already had.  Why hide things from someone you're so... familiar with?"

Telling Anja