The Pirate's Duchess

When a Duchess trades her crown for a compass the sea itself must choose a side.In the shadow of the Crown's dominion where loyalty is bought in blood and freedom costs everything Evelyn Ravenscar-widow to a murdered Duke-uncovers a secret powerful enough to shatter empires. Her late husband's journals whisper of treason stolen gold and a name feared across every ocean: The Raven a pirate captain whose black-flagged ship haunts the seas like a legend come to life.Determined to learn the truth Evelyn sails from the marble courts of Windmere to the storm-ridden reaches of the Corsair's Passage where kings hold no sway. There she meets the man himself-enigmatic dangerous and bound by secrets of his own. The Raven is everything the Crown calls monster... yet in his eyes Evelyn glimpses the one thing she thought she'd lost forever: freedom.But freedom comes with a price.As Evelyn learns to navigate a world of shifting loyalties and salt-stained oaths she discovers that her husband's death was only the beginning of a conspiracy that stretches from the palace halls to the depths of the sea. The Corsair's Map-a relic thought lost to myth-holds the key to a fortune that could topple kingdoms or set them free. And in the race for its discovery Evelyn and The Raven must decide which they will protect: their lives their love or the last hope of the free seas.Torn between two worlds-the glittering court that betrayed her and the brutal beauty of the life she's chosen-Evelyn becomes more than a Duchess more than a fugitive. She becomes a legend whispered in every harbor tavern a symbol of defiance known only by one name: The Pirate's Duchess.Sweeping from candlelit ballrooms to tempest-tossed decks from the gilded prisons of royalty to the untamed horizon of the open sea The Pirate's Duchess: Secrets Within the Black Flag is a tale of passion vengeance and redemption set against the backdrop of an empire on the brink of ruin.William M. Prall's mas