The Scourge - Pirates & Privateers
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  • Reads 9,895
  • Votes 802
  • Parts 29
  • Time 7h 1m
Complete, First published Mar 13, 2021
Mature
SHORTLISTED FOR WATTYS 2022

What should have been an easy payday for a band of British privateers turns into a desperate fight for survival when they find a young woman in the wreck of a schooner.

Life is unforgiving for any privateering ship fighting in the Queen Anne's War, but of all the leaky tubs on the Caribbean sea, the brigantine ship, Scourge, and her crew have been dealt a pretty rotten hand. None more-so than her newest member, Martin Hamish, a deckhand looked down upon by his captain and fellow shipmates, but eager to please nonetheless. Down on their luck and desperate for their next prize, the crew's prayers are answered when a burning ship, bursting with unclaimed loot, crashes into the shore nearby. However, their dreams of a free payday are quickly soured when they discover an enigmatic noblewoman in the wreck with a proposition that may well change their fortunes, or end them all together.

[Story complete at 88,000 words - next novel in the works]

WARNING: Contains violence, gore, threat, alcohol references & scurvy dogs
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