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This HaBO comes from Aizee, who is looking for this historical romance series:
The hero and heroine were both part of a pirate “family” (I want to say in the Caribbean) where the head pirate was the father of the heroine.
Heroine is beautiful, headstrong, blah, blah, blah and much younger than the hero, who looked after her because he had had a crush on her mother (head pirate’s wife) who died young (in childbirth? murdered by other pirates?).
For some reason I don’t remember, the pirate family has to give up the business and move to England where it turns out the head pirate/father is also a nobleman with an estate where they will be safe. Possibly part of a series about the pirate “children”.
I don’t know why this is stuck in my head but I would really appreciate any help you all can give!
Can we HaBO?
Becket’s Last Stand
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Kasey Michaels
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Is this a book in the Darlene Marshall series? I’m thinking of The Pirate’s Secret Baby.
Years since I’ve read it but some details remind me of parts of the Romney Marsh series by Kasey Michaels.
This book might be Alexandra’s Ecstasy by Dana Ransom (a fairly popular author of the 80s/90s whose work is unfortunately not in e-book form). It is a sequel to The Pirate’s Captive and Alexandra is the daughter of that book’s hero and heroine, who this book revealed to have died young giving birth. The hero is her friend from childhood. That said, there’s a number of pirate family romance series out there.
The series is about the Malory family, by Johanna Lindsey. She wrote 12 books about the family in this series.
I am thinking the same as Susan and.
Sorry should say same as Susanna.
Could be Sea of Ruin by Pam Goodwin ?
I second Romney Marsh series by Kasey Michaels. Entire series is enjoyable.
Looking at the description of the Romney Marsh Becket series, I am pretty certain the book is Becket’s Last Stand by Kasey Michaels, the last in the series.
Marsha Canham has an epic old school series about an extended family of pirates.
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton has many of the elements you mention. And flying houses.
I know I’ve read this and my first thought was The Magic of You by Johanna Lindsey (Malory series). But I checked my copy and the hero did not love the mother. But Kasey Michaels’ Beckett’s Last Stand (that I also own and have read) does have the correct plot points (adopted boy with crush on mother who is murdered by other pirates while heroine is a baby) in the Prologue. So I vote for that.
I think it’s the Darlene Marshall series. There is an add for one of the books, “What the Parrot Saw, on the right side of my screen as I type this. It’s a great series!
Any chance it’s a Katherine Ashe story? She’s got a novella called The Pirate and I, but I seem to remember a pirate-subplot running through several of her books.
This sounds like Laura London’s The Windflower, though some details are mashed together (it was the pirate’s captain who had a crush on the heroine’s mother, only slightly creepy, but he isn’t her father).
I read it MANY times because there was a not quite gay relationship between the captain (not the hero) and another pirate.
Thank you all for helping! It was indeed the Beckets of Romney Marsh series by Kasey Michaels – and the specific book I was looking for was “Becket’s Last Stand.” TYSM! <3
And now I have to check out all the *other* suggestions because they all sound good too 😉