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  The Skull and Crossbone Romances:

  The Devil’s Luck – Lust and discovery, betrayal and secrets in the age of sail. Oh yes, and pirates. Dirty, dirty pirates. A young widow from Bristol is ready to sail for the Colonies, and who’s there to make trouble? Our own fallen Rowland Graves of course. A full-length erotic bodice-ripper novel to satisfy your thirst for adventure and pleasure on the high seas.

  The Maid and the Cook (A Devil’s Luck Vignette) – A light-hearted, bawdy pirate romance novella following Brigit, the widow’s maid from The Devil’s Luck, and her adventures down in the galley when she catches the unexpected eye of the ship’s cook.

  Stand-Alone Stories

  As Flame to Smoke – A dark, supernatural erotic romance novella, released with The Darker Side of Love boxed set from The Erotic Collective.

  Four Bodies, One Van, No Names – a fun, snarky erotic adventure short, released with The More The Merrier menage erotica boxed set from The Erotic Collective.

  Acknowledgements

  Thank you to my husband for more than one night of sitting down and debating this plot to death. Thank you Mister Jim for helping me weed out those pesky Americanisms and everything else that caught your careful eye. Thank you to Nora who really pumped me up about this dark horse of a story, and for loving Judith, who probably needed it more than anyone else. And thank you to all the dead people who look the other way when I write silly things. You know I love you.

  Table of Contents

  I Promises, Light and Dark

  II A Terrible Perseverance

  III Paved With Good Intentions

  IV The Dove and the Fox

  V Descent

  VI The One