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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

Ilona threw her arms around Mason, hugging him tightly.  The man chuckled and hugged her back.

"I'm so happy!  The ship will have all kinds of things we'll need!"

Ilona pushed up on her toes then so she could give him a quick kiss.

"How soon can we go to it?" she asked eagerly.

Mason moved to climb out of the small pool, no longer needing to keep the ship in their sight.

"If we go now, we could probably reach it just before nightfall.  But I don't know how we're going to get to it yet.  It looks like most of it is underwater, which means it must be fairly deep where it is."

The Open Space