Drowned in the Name of Love

Donna Balboa lives inside the walls of Tidia's court, where her father's murder left her under the watch of nobles. Her father was the famed Pirate King, and the revolution that followed his death shaped the rest of her life. She has felt like a prisoner in her old home for years.

A law in the Nine Seas keeps nobles away from the shore and ships away from the sea. Donna breaks it in secret every night, because she wants to sail as a pirate, as her father did. On what should be the most important day of her life, an unexpected turn throws her in with the crew of a notorious ship and its wanted captain.

The captain carries a past that even the Gods seem unwilling to forgive. As he and Donna grow closer, nightmares and omens begin to threaten secrets that could ruin any chance of love between them. Kingdoms hunt Donna for living by the pirate code, and she is caught between vengeance and ancient mysteries.

Then she learns she holds the key to a power the Gods themselves appear to fear, and she has to choose where her loyalty lies. This is a romantic fantasy on the high seas, with curses, betrayal and a forbidden love. The setting is pirate adventure, and the tone leans toward the dramatic and the dangerous.