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    Book of Secrets: The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart, #1
    Book of Secrets: The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart, #1
    Book of Secrets: The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart, #1
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    Book of Secrets: The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart, #1

    By Andrea Phillips

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    Do you like daring young women, carnivorous mermaids, jungle-dwelling lizard-people, Atlantis, ghost ships, unrequited love, shadows that suck the breath from your lungs, ruthless anachronism, witty banter, calculating ballistics trajectories? Huzzah! This will be your kind of story.

    This is the first installment of The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart, a year-long monthly pirate adventure serial. Read this short ebook to start the voyage -- then visit lucysmokeheart.com to solve the puzzle and start the treasure hunt!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrea Phillips
    Release dateJun 9, 2013
    ISBN9781498923156
    Book of Secrets: The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart, #1

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      Book of Secrets - Andrea Phillips

      Episode 1: Book of Secrets

      Our story begins in a dark tavern in the dodgy part of a port town. The only place to start a ripping pirate yarn, don't you think?

      The surly (and probably criminal) patrons of this particular tavern had pooled together in the corners and crevices furthest away from the light, like peas rolling to escape a fork. They clutched their tankards and tried to impress one another with tall tales of the wondrous and terrible sights they'd seen on the open seas: mermaids and waterspouts, thundering volcanoes and towers hanging in the clouds.

      One sat alone, as close to the light as he could manage: an Englishman with enormous mutton chops and a hairless jaw. He fidgeted with his drink and flinched at every flicker of the lamp.

      His gaze darted to the door when the newcomer arrived, then stayed fixed on the curiosity to be found there. It was a fresh-faced girl, not a day over seventeen, in the breeches and bare feet of a sailor. She leaned her elbows on the bar. Barkeep! she cried. Got any grog?

      The tavern owner, a weathered woman of advancing years and retreating teeth, frowned over her new customer. Pretty girl like you shouldn't be out by yourself, she warned. They say— and here her voice fell to a whisper— They say Smokeheart's ship has been sighted off the coast. We're in danger, every last one of us!

      You don't say. How terrible! said the girl, with keen interest. Captain Smokeheart, was it? The infamous pirate?

      Aye, lass. Another patron clomped up. He was a red-bearded giant of a man, and he swayed gently where he stood, though it was hard to tell if it was due to drink or legs unaccustomed to dry land.

      He spat on the floor. They say Smokeheart's flag means certain death, y'know. She'll burn a town as soon as loot it. This could be our last brew, men! He drained his mug and then set it down with a bang. Get me another, Gertie, there's a good lass.

      Another voice chimed in from the shadows. They say she has a bargain with the mermaids, and they follow her ship to devour the enemies she throws overboard!

      And another: She studied the arts of war and fire in far Cathay, and she knows fifty ways to kill armed with nothing but a sausage!

      They say the Queen of Persia has a bounty on her head rich enough for you to live in luxury all the rest of your days!

      They say she's sworn to marry Poseidon himself, and no mortal man can ever win her heart!

      The girl preened a little. Well, she said modestly, "a girl could do worse than a god, don't

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