Buccaneers #25

Captain Daring races to rescue Sir Mark Drayton and Lady Dolores when their ship is swept into the dreaded Sea of Darkness—a graveyard of vessels trapped by a deadly ocean current from which no ship has ever returned. When he discovers the wreckage haunted by the ruthless King Plunder and his pirate army, Daring finds himself and his crew facing enslavement, while King Plunder sets his sights on making Lady Dolores his queen. Now trapped in a realm of lost ships with enemies closing in, Captain Daring must find a way to outwit the self-proclaimed monarch and escape the inescapable.

Adam Peril, a U.S. Navy captain sent by President Jefferson to hunt pirates in the Gulf of Mexico, finds himself chasing the elusive Captain Phantom—a ruthless buccaneer whose ghost ship, the Flying Ghost, strikes merchant vessels and vanishes without a trace. When Adam spots his quarry at a New Orleans tavern, a daring rescue by the secret agent Anita Galvez turns the tables, but Captain Phantom slips away once again. Now Adam devises a cunning trap, gambling that the pirate's hunger for plunder will lead him straight into the jaws of a carefully laid ambush.

When a captured woman aboard a Moslem galley draws Black Roger into the treacherous "Jaws of Allah"—a narrow pass controlled by his enemies—the scourge of the Barbary Pirates finds himself and his ward Barty trapped with dwindling supplies and no apparent escape. But the lovely Princess Shareen, who orchestrated the entire ambush to avenge her father's death, may have underestimated just how resourceful Roger can be when cornered. With cunning and the help of a fair wind, Black Roger devises an audacious plan to turn the trap itself into his salvation.

Soldier of fortune Eric Falcon hunts pirates with ruthless dedication—until the savage Captain Hawke seizes his lady Fortuna and uses her as leverage to render him helpless. Forced to abandon his pursuit lest harm befall her, Eric must outthink a cunning enemy who holds all the cards, turning desperation into opportunity when an unexpected rival ship crosses their path.

When Governor Sir Cedric Evans' daughter Lila Evans is attacked and her home destroyed by the ruthless pirate Bloody Blake, she discovers that her trusted companion Lord Merckle was a traitor working with the raiders. Driven by vengeance and armed with the swordsmanship and sailing skills her guardian Monk once taught her in secret, Lila seizes Blake's ship and transforms it into an instrument of justice, rallying the survivors of Cartago to her cause. What begins as a gentlewoman's desperate act of retaliation sets her on a path that will earn her a legend—as the Corsair Queen.