FROM PROLOGUE----------
Parents. Sometimes, I wished they can just get out of my life, I used to think, as most teenagers have done. Though the difference, which I never knew, was...
Wish... Granted.
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[ ] blank. Happiness, life, ordinariness.Raphael went through all of that. Suffering, death, loneliness. Is what he's about to go through.
His mental support coming mostly from a crow, a stranger online, and a pot plant, Raphael Howe isn't what you'd call normal-even in the world of teenagers where everyone seems a little out of place in a way or another.
Discovering things whilst on the bloody path of his already arranged life, Raphael is ready to surrender to fate. However, someone isn't.
Someone who's determined to make him [ ].
#Wattys2015 Beginners' Luck
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.
*****
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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