Siren

“We are credited with a fleet that Edward Teach himself would have given his black beard and liver to assemble. You are depicted with sea snakes in your hair and a voice like Circe’s, that has drawn me to a thousand crimes. And when we couple it is on the ocean bed, amongst Spanish bullion strewn with the skulls of the drowned, their eye sockets bulging with emeralds and rubies.”

Such is Jean Laffite’s ironical warning to privateer Léonore Roncival. But the danger is real, and more intimate than either dares to admit. 

They first meet when Jean Laffite invades her island, and they stand opposed in a dramatic struggle when the United States take on Britain in the War of 1812. This historical adventure, that American Booklist hailed as 'a grand and glorious delight', sweeps from the coral cays of the Caribbean to wealthy and extravagant New Orleans. It is the story of freebooter Léonore Roncival and the legendary pirate, Jean Laffite. A story of desire and possession, of warships and islands, and the treacherous reefs that lie between.

I am very pleased to let you know that a new edition of Siren will be released by Sapere Books as an eBook and as a print-on-demand paperback in 2025-26. Exact date when I know it.