Madcap (The Madcap)

Pillage plunder mayhem and wicked magical tattoos...That sounds like the perfect life for pirate Captain Maggy Low. Her life is a dream of violent chaos if you dont count the fact that magic causes her first mates brain to melt until he turns to a beast intent on eating his fellow crewmates. Maggy decides that her new goal for plunder is healing nanites that will keep the magical malady from destroying her first mate. Her reward is just what a pirate might expect from doing the right thing by a shipmate: Prison.Instead of her normal good clean fun Maggy gets to see what her enemies in the Alliance view as a good time: prison slavery and to be sold off to the highest bidder. Unfortunately her new adventures mean shell face an old enemy get caught stealing high-level nanites lose ship and crew and become the property of the Alliance to do with as they will. Though Maggy returns to the sea it is as a prisoner-in-transport under the control of the metal-accoutered Alliance captain Jonah Sloan. Unfortunately for Maggy Sloan views her like the rabid dog her first mate had become and she ends up on the selling block and under the heel of her own father-turncoat Ned Low.Maggy must face down the devil that made her make allies of enemies and find a way to break free from the technology that would keep her a puppet forever. Its all for the one thing she loves more than herself: the MadCap. Of course you cant keep a good pirate down...