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Here you can read a little about the Swashbuckler books. Twelve year-old Lily lives on the island of Santa Lucia, somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, with her younger brother Lucas and their widowed mother. Early one morning, Lily and Lucas watch in fear as their town is attacked by a pirate ship. The family runs to safety in a secret cave in the hills. There, later that night, Lily learns that years ago her father was taken by pirates, and may still be alive and sailing somewhere on the high seas. As Lily sits alone on the hill and watches the pirate ship leave the harbour, she swears that one day she will find out the truth about her father and bring him home alive. But she is caught by a raiding party from the ship, kidnapped at gunpoint, and taken away on the Gisella by its tyrannical El Capitán de Diablo. Will she ever be able to return home? What is the truth behind her father's disappearance? Can she ever escape El Capitán de Diablo? Book Two: The Pirate's Revenge As Napoleon Bonaparte’s fleet descends on the islands of Malta, the pirate ship Mermaid flees the invaders and goes on the attack against unsuspecting ships filled with refugees. Lily Swann and her crew embark on a new career, smuggling food into Malta under orders from their friend Hussein Reis. Their first delivery is one Lily dreads – to her old enemy, Ebenezer Black. But she finds that running a naval blockade is easy compared to the battles that lie ahead. Read more about The Pirate's Revenge, plus a sneak preview, here. In her spacious new home overlooking the sea, Lily is having trouble coping with life ashore. Parental discipline is boring after months of a carefree pirate life, and it’s not easy to adjust to being back with her family. Everyone is grumpy and on edge, nothing she does is right, and nobody seems to believe Lily's stories of her days as a pirate. Then one night a fiery family argument is interrupted by a sinister knock on the door. The world around them has erupted into war, and this time the Swann family goes into action together, as Lily faces her most dangerous adventure yet.
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