She was without form or solidity yet she saw, heard, and became aware of everything within her jurisdiction. ![]() She was the soul of the sea, the spirit of the waves and was capable, as the mood took her, of benign complaisance or malicious rage. In the depths, in the abyss of darkness at the very bottom of the oceans Tethys stirred. Using all her skills Tiola must conjure up a wind to rescue her lover, but first she must brave the darkness of the ocean depths and confront the supernatural being, Tethys, the Spirit of the Sea, an elemental who will stop at nothing to claim Jesamiah Acorne's soul and bones as a trophy. In trouble, imprisoned in the darkness and stench that is the lowest part of his brother's ship, can Tiola with her gift of Craft, and the aid of his loyal crew, save him? He wants both, but Mereno and van Overstratten want him dead. When the call of the sea and an opportunity to commandeer a beautiful ship - the Sea Witch - is put in Jesamiah's path he must make a choice between his life as a pirate or his love for Tiola. Her name, an anagram of "all that is good." Tiola and Jesamiah become lovers, but the wealthy Stefan van Overstratten, a Cape Town Dutchman, also wants Tiola as his wife and Jesamiah's jealous brother, Phillipe Mereno, is determined to seek revenge for resentments of the past, a stolen ship and the insult of being cuckolded in his own home. And then he discovers what she really is a healer, a midwife - and a white witch. He is to meet Tiola Oldstagh, an insignificant girl, or so he assumes - until she rescues him from a vicious attack, and almost certain death, by pirate hunters. But his life is to change when he and his crewmates unsuccessfully attack a merchant ship off the coast of South Africa. ![]() The Place : The Pirate Round - from the South African Coast to the sun drenched Islands of the Caribbean.Įscaping the bullying of his elder half brother, from the age of fifteen Jesamiah Acorne has been a pirate with only two loves - his ship and his freedom. The Time : The Golden Age of Piracy - 1716.
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