Tempest: A Novel of Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen Who Disappeared

She told her grandchildren it was someone else's story. It was the most honest thing she'd said in forty years.Virginia, 1789. An old woman with a straight back and a secret past pulls her grandchildren close and begins a tale of pirates, swordfights, and a girl who refused to disappear. But the story she's telling is more dangerous than any of them know — because every word of it is true.Charleston, 1720. Eighteen-year-old Anne Cormac is a bastard daughter with a wild temper and a secret life. By day she endures corsets, arranged marriages, and a stepmother who wields politeness like a blade. By night she is Andy — a young man who drinks in dockside bars, throws punches, and catches the eye of a pirate captain named Calico Jack.When Anne discovers her fiancé is selling pirates to the Navy, she runs — straight onto Jack's ship and into the teeth of the Golden Age of Piracy. She'll learn to fight, to sail, to kill. She'll earn the name Pirate Queen. And she'll fall in love with the one person who sees her as she truly is: Mary Read, a sharpshooter who walks aboard openly as a woman and never once looks away.But the sea takes everything eventually. Jack's charm curdles into possession. Mary's love becomes the promise of a future Anne can almost touch. And the British Navy is closing in.Tempest is a sweeping historical adventure novel inspired by the real Anne Bonny — pirate, outlaw, and the woman history lost. Told through a Princess Bride–style frame narrative of a grandmother's bedtime story, it is a tale of identity, freedom, disguise, and the cost of living on your own terms.Perfect for fans of Daughter of the Pirate King, Bonny & Read, Tress of the Emerald Sea, and anyone who ever wanted The Princess Bride retold with a cutlass and a sapphic love story at its heart Read more