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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 storm caught up to them before anyone had expected it to.  The sky grew dark as the charcoal-colored clouds gathered overhead.  Mason held tight to the rigging high in the air and stared out at the ocean in shock.  A wall of rain moved across the water toward the ship until it was thrown over them like a blanket.

Fat drops of driving rain hammered down on them, stinging their bare skin with the impact and making every surface slick with water.  Lightning flashed through the sky with deafening cracks, and thunder boomed, shaking them to their bones.

The waves grew higher, becoming walls of water that slammed into the ship with all their might.  The ocean water washed over the rails and swept across the deck, taking anything that wasn't tied down with it over the other side.

"We should go down!" Jamie yelled to Mason over the storm, "It isn't safe up here!"

When A Storm Hits