Resultados para "Piraten" en Novela histórica

Lady Claire Von Hagen was en route to the island of Baleniesia, in the Caribbean, to meet the man her father had dictated she would marry. Lord Von Hagen, Governor of Baleniesia, ruled his island and his daughter with an iron fist, and he had determined that marriage to the distasteful, but wealthy and titled, Sir Edmund Fitzhugh, would be most advantageous. Lady Claire was sailing to Baleniesia to submit to marriage when her ship was captured by pirates. Her abductor, a pirate Captain known as Black Betty, had other plans for Lady Claire.

En la China de principios del siglo XIX, la joven Ching Shih consiguió salir de un burdel flotante de Cantón para comandar la Armada de la Bandera Roja, la mayor fuerza pirata que ha existido jamás, con más de dos mil barcos y setenta mil hombres bajo su mando. Con ella llegó a enfrentarse y a vencer al mismísimo emperador de China. El coraje y la voluntad de esta mujer le hicieron pasar por encima de lo que nadie esperaba de ella, liberarse del futuro al que la destinaba su nacimiento y alcanzar el poder y la gloria en un mundo dominado por los hombres.

Apasionantes relatos de piratas, bandidos, y bandoleros inspirados en personajes de los últimos quinientos años de historia de América. Piratas cuyo escenario es el mar en la época de la Colonia, bandidos y bandoleros cuyas andanzas tenían lugar en selvas, montañas, desiertos y veredas en...

Los campamentos piratas que salpican la costa de Somalia amenazan con secuestrar cualquier barco que se les acerque pero los países desarrollados no parecen capaces de hacer frente al problema. La industria energética mundial está al borde del colapso. ¿Podrá un hombre de negocios enfrentarse a los piratas? ¿Será capaz el fallido estado somalí de controlar su propia costa?

Madeleine Russell counted on making a splendid match. Instead, a devastating family scandal left her orphaned and penniless...and determined to uncover the villain who disgraced and killed her father. The beautiful, quick-witted Maddy disguises herself as a household servant, vowing to work in her prime suspect’s house and learn the truth. But the closer she gets to the man who may have ruined her family, the more she feels drawn in by his wicked reputation.

Captain Alister Paine has always had his good eye set on treasure, murder, and sinking ships. His fame as a ruthless, bloodthirsty pirate has spread across the Seven Seas. The Howling Death, his precious warship, is the deadliest ship on the ocean waters, striking fear into the hearts of all...

Amelia Archer will be the ruin of her family. Her extraordinary bad luck is burden enough, but her sweet, trusting nature often lands her in impossible scrapes. After the last straw, Amelia's harried father ships his unfortunate daughter off to the Colonies to live with her aunt. But wherever Amelia goes, bad luck is sure to follow. Pirate David Lamont is taken with the lovely young Englishwoman the moment she's pulled aboard from her sinking vessel. But sailors are already a superstitious lot and Amelia is unwelcome. In a feat of chivalry, David defends and claims her for himself.

When rare book librarian Emma Boyd searches for a pirate's long-lost treasure map, she learns the hard way that pirates still exist in today's world - and some modern pirates steal maps, others steal hearts. The treasure map she seeks belonged to the Caribbean pirate Thomasina Farris, who disappeared in 1715 without a trace. Did Captain Tommy steal an entire treasure from a Spanish galleon and escape? Did she die by another pirate's sword?

It’s the 1970s, and the “houseboat wars” erupt in Sausalito on the site of Marinship, the abandoned World War II shipyard. Hippies and squatters are living free and easy on houseboats in a ramshackle shantytown, and greedy developers are determined to evict them and build new docks to attract affluent residents.

In England’s silent-film industry, Randolph Fflytte is king. Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate the criminal activities that surround Fflytte’s movie studio but nothing seems amiss until the company starts rehearsals in Lisbon. There the thirteen blonde-haired, blue-eyed actresses who...

On the eve of her forced wedding to a man she cannot abide, Lady Beatrix Wrenwood decides to run away and chase a family secret. She disguises herself as a boy and enlists on The Tempest, a ship bound for the West Indies. She can’t cook or tie a proper knot, but she can mend sails and scrub the deck, or so she thinks. Captain August Drake has his own secrets.

The goddaughter of a legendary pirate joins forces with a guarded sea captain to undertake a perilous rescue mission—one that may cost them everything, including their hearts. Jane Austen meets Pirates of the Caribbean. Annabelle Bradford was born on the sea and as an infant, was claimed by...

The last time New Orleans attorney Jean-Luc Valmont saw Maribel Cordoba, a Spanish nobleman's daughter, she was an 11-year-old orphan perched in the riggings of his privateering vessel proving herself as the best lookout on his crew. Until the day his infamy caught up with them all, and innocent lives were lost. Unsure why he survived, but vowing to make something of the chance he was given, Jean-Luc has buried his past life so deep that no living person will ever find it - until a very much alive and very grown-up Maribel Cordoba arrives on his doorstep.

A pirate's promise is a perilous thing. When a lady strikes a scandalous bargain with a plunderer of the seas, neither of them suspects where it will lead. Revenge and high stakes on the Medieval Isle of Mull. After Liza Maclean's cruel husband decides to do away with her, she finds herself tied...

George Roberts of Virginia is a captain without a ship. But when he meets his charismatic friend Ned Low, and they share a glass or two, he realizes the next day that he’s signed on as first mate for a voyage to retrieve a fortune in gold.

Mary Burleigh never knew that her mother, the straight-laced Carolina lady Anne Burleigh, had in her youth been the infamous pirate Anne Bonny, and that her real father had actually been a pirate. All Mary knew was the privileged life she had led growing up on a plantation. While on a sailing voyage to Jamaica, Mary is abducted by the pirate captain Jack Read, the famous son of Calico Jack Rackham, but her initial horror soon turns to unimaginable bliss as during her time aboard she transitions from hostage-for-ransom to cabin girl, and then to lover.

Ashley Brittany is living a nightmare. She's been mistakenly married to the one man she despises. Months ago, Lord Nicholas took her virtue then scorned her. Now Ashley will do anything to have her revenge...anything but expose her ugly secret. Nick Martingale has a secret, too: He's Captain Robin Hood, a pirate with a fearsome reputation. But when Nick learns his archenemy, the Barbary pirate Yussef, attacked innocents Nick has sworn to protect, he can think of nothing but vengeance.

After the storm that separates them, Captains Rosetta Silver and Alister Paine find themselves sailing side by side together once more. Their passion refuses to fizzle out and burns brighter, hotter, and, frighteningly, deeper every time. Rosetta manages to convince the land-hating Alister to...

It should have been a simple task: sail the ocean, dump some dangerous stones, and return to his daughter's side—only Jrijori didn't count on being abducted. Kind of embarrassing given he's supposed to be a renowned assassin, but he doesn't mind once he realizes who's taken him captive. Zora never forgave Jrijori for trying to kill her father and fleeing. Now that she's a Queen without an island to rule, she's turned to pirating to make ends meet. However, what if she could free her home from the monsters infesting it?

It's 1753, the golden age of piracy is dead along with its famous Pirate Captains, still pirates are sailing the seas and Pirate Captain Nathanael Blackthorne is "out there" doing what he does best captaining, the Ciara Morganse, seeking revenge, when Providence dumps a treasure on his deck, Cate Mackenzie, a Jacobite War criminal. It's a story of people, scared of both spirit and flesh, coming to grips with that ol' demon, Trust. It's the story of what a man will do to preserve his most treasured. It's the story of what a woman will risk to gain what she desires most.