Author Note

For all that he was a rogue, I couldn’t help liking Long John Silver when I read Treasure Island as a child. For ages now I’ve wanted to write a pirate story, but by the Regency pirates were, as they say, history. Privateers, however, were a whole other breed. Men who were given license or letters of marque by governments to prey on enemy ships, they generally made life difficult for the opposing side. Many of them became extremely wealthy in the process, and legally, too.

So I hope you enjoy this not-quite-a-pirate story. I think you will find that Michael meets his match in Alice. And while she doesn’t think she has a romantic bone in her body, there is just something about a rogue....

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