Synopses & Reviews
At the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger and gold, two unusual girls, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, one a rich merchants daughter, the other her plantation slave, set sail from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames
Deliverance. Not just any trading ship,
Deliverance flies black flags from its mast and proclaims to all that the new ship is a pirate vessel, striking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. Or so they hope.
For Nancy, Deliverance is her escape from an arranged marriage with a controlling and devilish man. For Minerva, it is escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancys family plantation. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship and the chance to see the world not as women, but as fearsome pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny.
From the award-winning and best-selling author Celia Rees comes a powerful, thrilling and ultimately inspiring journey of two women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory.
Synopsis
In 1722, after arriving in Jamaica, where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
Synopsis
In her attempts to escape the evil hand of a man trying to put her in a brothel, Nancy Kington decides to set sail with a former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe, in the hopes of finding a new life, yet they know there will be trouble ahead and so raise the black pirate flag atop their mast in the hopes that it will make any troublemakers think twice before approaching. Read by Jennifer Whiltsie. Book available.