Bøger af Sr Staley

When the Spanish royal navy chases the Caribbean's most notorious pirates into Port-au-Prince, Isabella and Jean-Michel are faced with the grim choice of running the blockade or joining a budding revolution that could spark a slave uprising. Isabella's run-in with a Voodoo priestess, high in the mountains of French-controlled Saint-Domingue, complicates her decision. She is forced to choose between her loyalty to Jean-MIchel and the crew, her forbidden love for a dashing army captain, and the freedom of thousands of slaves. Isabella soon realizes her path hinges on the prophecy that has dogged her since childhood and her dramatic escape from the sugar plantation. What does the prophecy really mean? Tortuga Bay continues the swashbuckling saga of Isabella and Jean-Michel. It began in The Pirate of Panther Bay as they crisscrossed the 18th century Caribbean Sea, wreaking havoc upon the Atlantic slave trade and the colonial economies of Spain and France

Ambushed by pirate hunters, Isabella, Jean-Michel, and Juan Carlos have little choice but to make a desperate try to outrun them. Isabella charts a course around Cuba and up the Gulf Coast of Florida, keeping her pursuers at bay as she makes a run for New Orleans and a shot at freedom.Their provisions exhausted by the cat-and-mouse game with colonial Spain's Captain-General of the West Indies, they are forced to take refuge and search for food and fresh water behind the barrier islands in the strange, unfamiliar, and eerily calm waters of Charlotte Harbor. Little do they know a rogue band of Calusa Indians, long thought to have been banished from the southernmost reaches of La Florida, have risen again to challenge hostile outsiders, a last gasp at protecting their culture and way of life in wildest of the wilds, the Everglades.The action doesn't stop as Isabella and her resilient band of pirates scramble to save their lives in daring ploy to escape the gallows of a relentless foe. Will they make it past the Spanish and the start of a new life?