A 17th century swashbuckling adventure and enemies to lovers romance with just a splash of magic.


An attack by a mythical sea monster leaves a young woman and a brooding pirate stranded on a lonely island and fighting for their survival.

Her whole life, she’s been preparing for this one moment.


12-year-old Charlie Sands was raised on the quiet banks of colonial Maryland, but when her guardian dies unexpectedly, she’s faced with a choice: spend the winter alone in her wooden cabin or sail in search of her seafaring parents.

Rough waters and navigation charts are the least of Charlie’s problems. When she gets captured by pirates, Charlie is determined to find a way to not only make it to her parents’ ship, but to prove to them once and for all that she’s fit to be a permanent member of their crew.

This treasure will be her undoing. So be it.

She’s willing to give up everything to find it.

Monica Boothe

Monica Boothe is the author of The Gardener Kings Trilogy. She has an MFA in fiction from George Mason University and has had short works published in Altarwork.com, Drunk Monkeys, and Cream City Review. She likes to write about fantastical gardeners, but in real life she has the blackest of thumbs.

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