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"Look at you," he growled. "All bothered because of a filthy pirate. How can you live with yourself when you clearly want me so much?"
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How can she want him dead so badly when she desires him?
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#FANTASY #WSA2022
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Mature content, violence, slow burn and dark themes. You've been warned. This is not your average fantasy love story despite the bad boy theme.
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Mariana Adams is a young woman in her early twenties, living in the fantastical world of Ad Rath, which is plagued by ghosts, sea monsters and ancient curses. She gathers herself a crew of battle-hardened privateers to hunt down her ex, the pirate king Captain Daniel Brandon. Their years together haunt Mariana, as does his betrayal...but how come can't she keep her eyes off him? 

Even when she finds out her fate as a savior of the world in a battle against ancient monsters, she keeps coming back to him across the ocean in this game of cat and mouse. On and off. Hot and cold. It's dangerous, but it's so addictive...but what if Daniel is even more demonic than she has thought? What if he keeps her in his domineering, hypnotic allure and won't let go?
What does he really want from her? Her body? Her hatred? Her love?
When angels and demons fall in love in a world of magic where anything can happen on the high seas, skies will crumble and hearts will be broken.
There is only one rule in magic...
You cannot forbid a heart from desiring.
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This is a bad boy / good-ish girl SLOW BURN love story set in a high fantasy world that may be familiar to you from Water Belongs to the Dead: Heart of the Witch and Evil Occultist. Set in a time of pirates, magnificent treasure ships and witches, I Hate to Love the Pirate King will plunder your heart.
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I Hate to Love the Pirate King

This was too much of this emotional battery. She had to get out of this place, off this ship.


Even as she climbed up a rope to make an announcement to the entire crew, she was calculating, plotting her escape once her heel would dig into Karshaan soil and she would have a chance to really get away from the pirate king for good.


Of course, a part of her knew that this was not going to be the way things would play out in her life. She was tied to him, just like he was tied to her, and their fates were welded together into a single blade that pierced the very fabric of reality.


She still wanted just one blissful adventure away from him so that she could figure out who she was as a person and what she could do to untangle herself from all these soul trades she had so impulsively cast herself into.


"And that is why we have to figure things out before you get your pay," she finished her sorry-to-tell-you speech. "I hope you have some leftover gold from your latest loot."


Angel Heart