"Tick tack, the time has started... I don't know if I can make it in time! Tick tack, the time goes by... I turn right and slip, slamming my head against the wall. Tick tack, time is ending... My head throbs like hell, but I keep going. I can't lose! Tick tack, end of time..."
This is the story of Kyra Delfine, a 24-year-old woman who lives in the middle of the city with her husband and works at a local bar. Pretty normal, right? She's happy and all-or at least, that's what she tells herself. But one random day, everything changes. She receives an invitation to a better life-a life where she wouldn't have to stay married to a man she doesn't love just to please her mother. A life where she wouldn't have to wake up every morning to the sight of the man who destroyed her world.
All she has to do is win a game.
A magical, dangerous, exhilarating game with no rules, only a purpose. The stakes? Her life. But isn't life boring without a little risk? Kyra is on her own-at least, that's what she thinks.
But don't forget: the game has a timer, and time keeps ticking... tick tack.
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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