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Pirate Curse

Book Two of the Gripping Barty Roberts Series

A mysterious letter. A plea for help. A journey through time aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

Plans for a relaxing vacation are ruined for Barty’s family when a dive off the coast of North Carolina whisks them back to the time of the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Aboard his ship they make the troubling discovery that the pocket watch used to time travel is glitching and completely unreliable.

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As I write this review, my side still hurt from laughing so much. [Book Title] delivers what so many books are missing these days... silly, feel-good fun with likeable characters I want to spend time with.
I'm definitely picking up the next in the series!

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Underneath all the humor, fun banter and over-the-top chaos, there's a heartwarming tale of what it really means to be a supportive father, a loving daughter, and a young man wrestling with commitment.

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Pirate Curse

A mysterious letter. A plea for help. A journey through time aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge.

Plans for a relaxing vacation are ruined for Barty’s family when a dive off the coast of North Carolina whisks them back to the time of the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Aboard his ship they make the troubling discovery that the pocket watch used to time travel is glitching and completely unreliable.

Temporarily stuck aboard the vessel, Barty and Captain Pete must help history’s most fierce pirate locate a medicine chest he’s hunting for. If they succeed, Blackbeard promises to offer up information that could help break their fatal curse. Failure would see them trapped in the brig, forever lost in time.

Between villainous pirates and malicious mermaids, time is running out to break the curse targeting his entire family.

Can Barty navigate his way through treacherous pirate waters? Or, will tangling with Blackbeard see him sunk to the depths?

The Characters

  • Marcus is a man with a single, modest goal in life: to be remarkably, lavishly, and scandalously rich. There's just one small problem... how do you make money when you're being pursued by the local mob, the city guards, and a jilted fiancée?
  • Eleanor is a woman who hates the term jilted. Or scorned. Or rejected. As far as Eleanor is concerned, a promise is a promise, and she intends to collect on hers with interest!
  • Yuriy runs a family-owned business with a wide range of income streams: gambling, "protection", bribery, blackmail, violence, and a little light relocation of pre-owned property. But Yuriy will do anything for his only daughter... and if she wants a wedding, that's exactly what she'll get.
  • Captain Henry de Sauveterre is looking forward what seems like inevitable promotion. After years of meticulous police work, he's convinced he's finally found a surefire way to put away the city's leading crime boss. All he needs to do now is find his daughter and stop a wedding.

The Plot

  • They say crime doesn't pay. Well, it seems no one told Yuriy, the city's most infamous crime boss, who has promised to fund his only daughter's wedding to the tune of a hundred thousand gold crowns.
  • They say money can't buy you everything. Which Yuriy is starting to suspect contains a grain of truth. Money, it seems, can't buy a suitable groom. Which is kind of an essential element for any wedding.
  • They say violence never solved anything. Now this one is just plain incorrect. Yuriy never met a problem that couldn't be solved with a blunt object and some encouraging words.
  • A heartwarming story about family, love, commitment, and (un)organized crime.

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