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Title: Black Hearts White Bones

Author: William Charles Furney

Narrator: Becky Lingwood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-04-17

Publisher: Black Hearts Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

Publisher's Summary:

Peg Brennan hasn't held a sword since she was captured at sea and imprisoned 10 years ago. But as her fingers slide around the hilt of the rapier beside her, she knows that the life she has made for her bastard son in Bath is about to change for the worse - and still she cannot stop herself. What she doesn't know is that a darker threat will soon arrive to drag her back into the blackness that can only exist in a pirate's heart.

Sailing toward the port town is Mary Read - the woman Peg left behind to die in Jamaica nine years earlier. Her life has been as hard as Peg's has been mundane, providing bitter sauce for the cold revenge she intends to serve her former love. Mary Read plans to kill Peg - the woman who is really Anne Bonny - as payment for her suffering. But fate seldom adheres to the plans of men, and even less so for women who have tasted forbidden fruit.

More than a rousing adventure story in the vein of Treasure Island and Captain Blood, Black Hearts White Bones delivers a broadside to convention by daring to portray these legendary pirates as real women refusing to surrender to the mores of their time. Eschewing gratuitous bodice-ripping for a serious look at these two anti-heroines, debut author William Charles Furney gives us a resounding answer to the question, "If it is true that only those women who behave badly make history, can two women loving badly rewrite it?"

Though Black Hearts White Bones is a what-if novel that abounds in history, intrigue, and mystery, the story is always about Bonny and Read. The tension between them is present throughout, and little is what it appears to be. In the quest to regain that which Mary Read stole from her, Anne discovers clues about the Lost Colony, attempts to save the fortress city Charles Town, and discovers her true self. As the woman who would resurrect a pirate nation, Mary Read soon realizes that some bonds are not meant to broken - a circumstance that begins to drive Anne mad.

Members Reviews:

Riveting

Action packed, full of drama, heartache, love and dedication. William Charles Furney shares an amazing tale about Anne Bonny and Mary Read and their journey of survival through towns with enemies, dangerous seas, and friendships that hold grudges. When Mary kidnaps Anne's child, Tye, and sails away with him, Anne must do everything in her power to get him back. Even if that means giving up her long time alias of Peg Brennan and becoming the pirate she swore she would never be again. Through trials like Anne's never been through before, she's bound to save Tye, and maybe herself.

it was just an absolute great read! You offered a rich and explosive environment ...

I am blown away by this book. You captured my apt attention in the first paragraph and kept it to the very end. Your storytelling skills, character development and command of multiple topic areas were incredibly impressive--food, nature, sailing, explosive devices, slang of the era put me squarely in the time. That said, it was just an absolute great read! You offered a rich and explosive environment in which to tell the story of these two incredible women. I may have been in Hawaii on vacationlast week, but I felt like I was in North Carolina on a pirate ship. Bravo Bill, Bravo!!!!!! Now waiting for the movie and the sequel.

Highly recommend it.

Very interesting historical novel about pirates and life on the NC Outer banks.