PIRATES OF PLEASURE is a duet of two deliciously steamy erotic romances.
Set in 1898, it’s a world of the sea and powerful men. A world in another time…not part of the modernism and industrialization grabbing hold of England, Europe, and North America. It’s a world where stand and deliver still commands absolute obedience. It’s a world of strong, fiesty woman. A world where men take exactly what and who they want, and enjoy all the bounty they have the strength to keep … especially below deck.
Start the journey with Captain Jax and Blue in Book 1: HIS BOUNTY
Finish the story with Moriata and Rachael in Book 2: HIS CAPTIVE
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Captain Jax is asked by his long-standing mate, Moriata, a pirate of Portuguese-Japanese descent based in Japan, to collect a package for him and bring ‘her’ back no questions asked. The payment is her weight in gold, a fortune, and easy money as Jax can fill his hull with plunder on the trip and get paid for that too.
The story starts with her delivery to Jax’s ship, the Black Princess, by a bounty hunter who found her in the Lake District in England. Captain Jax is to take her back to Moriata in Japan but from the moment he sets eyes on her, he knows she’s trouble…trouble, trouble, trouble. The truth to that is apparent as, within moments, she finds a way to jump over the rail of his ship and into the Thames …and almost drowns…if he hadn’t saved her.
As they travel through the trade route from London, Calais, Istanbul, Paris, Jataka, and finally Yokohama, Jax has got to decide if a pirate’s word is more important to his mate or the woman who steals his heart.
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Else Holland’s heart-stopping romance brims with tension-building twists, characters that come off the pages and will pull you into their tale, a strong plot that is well written, great and witty dialogue with setting descriptions and action sequences that are wonderfully vivid which brings this read together perfectly. Raging feelings and tempers swirl like a tempestuous storm at sea between Captain Jax, one hot pirate, and Blue, a temptress that is hard to hold on to.
Fast-moving story of adventure!
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Moriata is none to pleased with his mate Jax, not pleased at all. There was the matter of his loss of face and there was the matter of revenge. Mori knows a weakness that will bring Captain Jax back and ready to make amends, make him think twice about using strategic ploys on him again. Moriata captures the closest thing that Jax has to a sister and does the very things no man wants another man to do to his sister, regardless of whether she’ll enjoy it or not.
And when the day of reckoning with Jax comes, will Moriata be giving back the very thing that he wants the most to keep?
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING SO FAR:
The lavishly erotic descriptions that detail the introductory scene set the story in this historical romance. With lines like “. . . tasted the water; ionic, fresh, clean like metal,” you know that you are going to be on a journey that will take you into this world. I could taste the water as I was reading.Danger and excitement. Lust and passion, heartache and pain. Adventure and revenge. That is what you will get from this story, so hot and raw you can almost feel it leaping off the page. Expect some darkly, titillating times on the high seas.
A lot of pirate stories give you a slightly grumpy, soft, misunderstood hero. This story gives you a dark pirate – which was what was promised in the title. This is not a swashbuckling story, but it is a thoughtful one. The descriptions of Japanese shrines and the cherry blossoms are lovely, and a great juxtaposition for the darker side of human desires. This has a strong thread of acceptance for the individual and the individual’s wants and desires. People are different and this book is a lovely tale of getting to a place of self-acceptance and personal understanding. Oh, and it has a strong undertone of eroticism and kink because – dark pirate story!
