Betrayal and secrets in the age of sail. Oh yes, and pirates. Dirty, dirty pirates.
A body can get thirsty out there, sailing the briny deep, but never fear. This trio of tales is bursting with plenty of dark, juicy goodness to keep you from drying out.

Salt and scallywags. Horror and heat. Death and love and revenge.
Come get your timbers shivered.

The Skull & Crossbone Collection includes three interconnected stand-alone stories that can be read in any order:

The Devil's Luck
Pirates don't ask for permission.
The widow Hannah Collingwood isn't supposed to be on this ship. The Devil's Luck? Impossible. That would make these men ...

Pirates.

And Captain Edmund Blackburn doesn't take passengers. The quartermaster, Benjamin Till, doesn't take orders from mortified women. Neither takes 'No' for an answer.

Hannah doesn't know how much more she can take from the two men. And then the secrets begin to come out.

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The Devil's Luck is a dark, filthy journey through the Golden Age of Piracy, where unrepentant knaves rip bodices, ruin reputations, and take total control.

The Decline and Fall of Rowland Graves
"What sort of person does these things?"
Young Doctor Rowland Graves has plans: Begin his professorship at Oxford. Marry his beloved Elinor Barlow. Begin the life he's earned.

But someone has other plans for Rowland. Plans to destroy everything he loves. Everything he's worked for.

He knows who they are. And he is capable of terrible things. They don't know him at all.

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Twenty-four years before the Widow Collingwood finds herself aboard The Devil's Luck, the villainous ship's surgeon is still a bright young man chasing a promising future. Then something happens to him. Someone happens to him.

Follow a man's descent into madness in this traditional Gothic horror, a romantic tragedy where no happy endings await, only innocence lost and blackened souls. A tale to read with the lights on.

The Maid and the Cook
"I'm no man's 'pretty girl,' and you know it."
Brigit O'Creagh knows her way around knives. She doesn't know her way around men. Especially not pirates.

And now there's this cook. John Bone. He's not laughing. Not sneering, like all the others. He's making her blush. She's making him think about taking a risk.

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With the Widow Collingwood in the hands of pirates, what safety could there be for a lady's maid, alone on a ship wretched with criminals?

Head below the decks of The Devil's Luck for dirty pirates, peg legs, and any number of unsanitary ways to behave in a galley. Salty and sweet from stem to stern, and refreshing fun after two other dark, dramatic tales.

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The Skull & Crossbone stories are not tales of the polished aristocracy where lords and ladies sigh amid fine silks and glittering ballrooms. These are the stories of criminals and outcasts—filthy, ugly, bawdy ... dark.
Heed the warning on the map: Here be dragons.

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Other titles in the Skull & Crossbone universe:
Gallows Pole

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