Set in a fictional country where the land is lush and fine sake is highly prized, a girl known as Piko apprentices the sake trade from a master who took her in when she was a baby.
Some times she is not too bright, getting stumped by simple, obvious issues, and yet she seems to have an unnatural cunning about her that makes many people nervous.
On top of that, she looks very different from the other people, she has flaming red hair, is tall, tomboyish, rambunctious, inquisitive, strong, a powerful fighter, and she wears a mysterious eye patch few people know the history of, and are afraid to ask about.
One day, she grows tired of the raiders that come to her village to pillage and destroy, so she decides to petition the gods for a fabled 'guardian angel' for the village...and she GETS one!
3 meters tall, pale chalky gray hair and skin, smoldering dark gray eyes, wrapped only in a mysterious cloudlike substance that always moves just enough to conceal any places one might want to peep, and carrying a sword which blazes like the sun so that it hurts to look at it, this angel comes into the village one day, wipes out an army of raiders, literally single handedly, then proceeds to go to Piko's home and lay down in Piko's bed to fall asleep.
This is but the beginning of complications to Piko's already complicated life!
Saving the life of the infamous rookie pirate, Captain Ruben Kirk, catapults Jessica Red into a sea of magic, jewel heists, and world-saving adventure.
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After years of watching pirates fighting with the king's navy off the coast of Harvest Island, Jessica Red saves the life of the infamous rookie pirate, Captain Ruben Kirk, and the two become fast friends. Little does she know, Ruben Kirk is only the first of three rookie pirates she'll meet during a whirlwind of sea-faring adventures - but when Jessica learns the corrupt King Mordred has plans to destroy her island home, can she convince them to help her save it?
("The Rookie Pirates" is Book 1 in "The Adventures of Jessica Red" trilogy.)
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