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    The Buccaneer and the Beauty
    The Buccaneer and the Beauty
    The Buccaneer and the Beauty
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    The Buccaneer and the Beauty

    By Candice Christian

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    Melynda is the daughter of a wealthy merchant in eighteenth century England. Her father has arranged for her to be married to an equally wealthy merchant in Nassau. Alone she is put upon a merchant ship bound for the Caribbean.

    The trip begins with violence and the ship that this carrying her, is overrun by pirates. The pirate captain, Clegg the Cruel takes the maiden captive, and she quickly learns life among a ship full of pirates can be filled with dangers of many kinds. She is threatened with harm by a couple of salty seaman, when the Captain Clegg intercedes.

    The first time actually seeing the Captain is a shock to Melynda, but not nearly as shocking as the justice meted out by the Captain toward the two drunken louts who tried to take advantage of the young maid.

    The Captain realizes that the maid will bring a hefty ransom and needs to keep her alive and unharmed. So provisions are made for her to be given more than adequate accommodations while on the pirate ship.

    It's not long before the Captain begins to find the charms of the maid quite enticing and slowly warms up to her. Thinking of keeping the girl for HERSELF.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTenth Muse
    Release dateDec 20, 2018
    ISBN9780463956045
    The Buccaneer and the Beauty
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    Candice Christian

    Candice was born in Paris KY on 9 January 1988. Her parents, George Bertrand Christian, an attorney who once aspired to be an actor, and Frances Hollowell insisted that Candice and her sister Simone, be sent to a Catholic school. Candice was deeply religious as a child, at one point thought of becoming a nun.

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      The Buccaneer and the Beauty - Candice Christian

      The Buccaneer and the Beauty

      Candice Christian

      Copyright 2018 Candice Christian

      Published by Candice Christian at Smashwords

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      Acknowledgments

      Russell Thorndike

      Prologue

      Melynda Ransley looked over the worn wooden railing and out onto the calm empty sea. Watching the myriad stars reflected on it, she wondered if she would ever again see the shores of home, or for that matter, even the next dawn.

      Had it only been four days since her nightmare had begun? No, she answered herself as she drank deeply of the night air; her ordeal had begun two months before. Her current set of circumstances, horrendous as they seemed, were but the latest tragedy to take hold of her young life.

      Seven weeks ago, only days before her eighteenth birthday, a messenger had appeared at the Melynda to which she had been sent when she was ten. In his pouch he carried written instructions to the Nuns into whose care she had been placed upon her entry into young womanhood. Instructions that forever shattered the peaceful, if mundane, existence Melynda had been living.

      The seventh and youngest daughter of Simon Ransley, a prominent British merchant, Melynda had learned that day that she had been promised in marriage to Townsend Brackenbury, a business associate of her father's. That this day would someday come was hardly a surprise to the young woman. After all, it was no secret that her father had little use for the daughters that three wives had bestowed upon him. It had been cruel fate that had let his only son die hours after his birth, despite his mother haven given her life for his.

      What had shocked Melynda was that she had been betrothed to a man her father had never even met face to face, as well as nearly two score older than she was. Townsend Brackenbury lived in far off Nassau, His Majesty's colony in the Caribbean, some three thousand miles distant. A decades-long trading partner, the older man had mentioned in one of his correspondences to her father of his desire to take a bride in order to produce an heir to his fortunes. Quite sympathetic to his desire, Simon had wasted no time in offering him the youngest of his offspring. An offer that Townsend accepted just as quickly as he knew that despite his wealth, few women that young would ever be interested in sharing his bed.

      Simon's reasons for the match were twofold. It would make their profitable business relationship one of blood, and ever more secure. Also, if he couldn't have a son, perhaps he could have a grandson that could inherit both mercantile empires. It was a thought to warm an old man's bones. That Melynda hadn't been informed of the negotiations until long after they had been finalized bothered neither man. After all, even in the year of our Lord, 1724, what were women but just another commodity to be used to serve the interests of men?

      So without much fanfare, Melynda had been bundled off on the transport, Fitzgerald, just one more piece of cargo on its way to the colony. She hadn't even been granted the luxury of a companion, as neither her father nor her betrothed saw the need to waste the cost of another passage.

      Instead, the young woman had been entrusted to the care of the ship's doctor, a disreputable looking man who constantly entered her cabin unannounced to, as he always said, check on her welfare. When Melynda had pointed out

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