Faced with an impossible choice, Teach and Anne must decide whether to chase their dreams and leave England forever-or follow their hearts and stay together. Drawn together by a shared desire for freedom, but kept apart by Teach’s father, their love is as passionate as it is forbidden. How will she ever achieve her dream of sailing to Curaçao-her mother’s birthplace-when she’s trapped in England?įrom the moment Teach and Anne meet, they set the world ablaze. Lonely days stretch into weeks and Anne longs to escape the confines of her now mundane life. Though she’s barely worked a day in her life, Anne takes a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond. There’s just one problem: he must convince his father to let him leave and never come back.įollowing the death of her parents, Anne Barrett is left penniless.

Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, all Teach wants is to return to the vast ocean he calls home. When Edward “Teach” Drummond, son of one of Bristol’s richest merchants, returns home from a year at sea, he finds his life in shambles. Faced with an impossible choice, Teach and Anne must decide whether to chase their dreams and leave England forever - or follow their hearts and stay together.In this stunningly creative debut, Nicole Castroman reimagines the origins of history’s most infamous pirate-Blackbeard-and tells the story of the girl who captured his heart and then broke it, setting him on a path to destruction. In 1697 Bristol, England, the daughter of a wealthy merchant and his West Indian slave falls. Drawn together by a shared desire for freedom, but kept apart by Teach's father, their love is as passionate as it is forbidden. How will she ever achieve her dream of sailing to Curacao - her mother's birthplace - when she's trapped in England? From the moment Teach and Anne meet, they set the world ablaze. Though she's barely worked a day in her life, Anne takes a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond. Following the death of her parents, Anne Barrett is left penniless. There's just one problem: he must convince his father to let him leave and never come back. Betrothed to a girl he doesn't love and sick of the high society he was born into, all Teach wants is to return to the vast ocean he calls home. When Edward 'Teach' Drummond, son of one of Bristol's richest merchants, returns home from a year at sea, he finds his life in shambles. and smoldering passion,' ( Booklist) Nicole Castroman reimagines the origins of history's most infamous pirate - Blackbeard.

In this stunningly creative debut 'filled with well-drawn characters.

Blackhearts by nicole castroman