Book 6 in the SF/F series Children of The Dragon by T. M. Moore.
Charity Rakham is a young English girl who learns about womanhood the hard way when her father and fiance' are killed by the dread pirate Blackbeard. Sold into slavery, she becomes a maid to a woman of means who is murdered, and she is framed for it. Now a fugitive, she rescues a hostage of the king of thieves who offers her love and the dragon's blood. Charity gains justice when she becomes the captain of the most fearsome pirate ship on the Caribbean Sea.
Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, Catherine Merit strives to fit into a world filled with prejudice, hatred and violence where she is forced to kill a man in order to save herself. Third book of the Indignities Series.
Dublin 1941. A brutal murder. Mistaken identity. And barman Eamon Foley is running for his life.
Nine months later Foley is in a crowded pub, and his brother-in-law is shot dead.