PIRATE QUEEN

Brought up as a boy, Anne Tyrell always felt like a boy, until strange stirrings of desire- brought on by handsome Pirate Jim Bonny-told her different.
The discovery was both startling and revelatory, as Jim married her and taught her that to be a woman was much more exciting than being a mere boy.
Though now a woman – in every sense of the word Anne and Jim shipped out with the notorious Captain Blackbeard, raiding, killing and looting, and establishing their reputations as free- booters who would stop at nothing in their quest for wealth and adventure.
Here, then, is the swashbuckling true saga of Anne Bonny, pirate queen, who fought like a man – with cutlass, pistol and tomahawk – and loved like a woman-with the tools provided her by nature.

COME BE MY BRIDE Blackbeard bent Anne backwards, ripping away the scarlet skirt from her lashing knees. Now he was fondling her bare flesh, taunting her with sharp, quick caresses that turned her frantic gasps into excited screams. Sudden revulsion brought Anne back to her senses and she wrenched away from him. Blackbeard fol- lowed, picking up a bottle as he went. “Have a drink,” he said. “Heat your blood as well as your temper.” He tried to pour wine into Anne’s mouth, choking her. The wine gushed down her neck, coursing between her breasts. Then, his eyes bulging with lust, he dropped the bottle and backed her toward the bunk. Anne darted for the bottle, clutched it and brought it down solidly on Blackbeard’s head. He bellowed once and pitched headfirst to the floor . . . AUTHOR’S PROFILE: Douglas Brown is the pen name of a well-known author of mystery and adventure stories and creator of The Shadow, who has also written many articles on noted figures of the American scene. He has combined these elements in this action-packed historical novel based on the actual lives and experiences of the most colorful figures in the latter-day saga of West Indian piracy. He began his career as a newspaper reporter in the Roaring Twenties and turned to feature writing, with articles widely syndicated throughout the country. In the 1930s he became a prolific author of mystery and detective stories. More recently he has been writing a great number of fact-crime articles plus serious books in the non-fiction and historical fields. His name–WALTER B. GIBSON.