This book, Pirate’s Promise is the followup book to Stolen Treasures. Both are written by Laurie Ryan. She’s a great writer and a wonderful person. Her stories are fun and as a girl who lives in a coastal town, I love the whole water, ships and pirates themes of these two books.
Pirate’s Promise has a really great heroine. She’s a lawyer and the author of the book does a great job with the whole legal world thing. She doesn’t get any of it wrong. A pet peeve of mine is when the world I know so well in real life gets skewed beyond recognition. Doesn’t happen here.
The hero in this book, Hawk, is a strong minded, loyal and amazing person. He gives up his own comfort to try and help a village in need. He denies himself his own pleasures for various reasons, all of them good. I enjoyed his character growth.
This story has a cool premise and isn’t run of the mill. The mystery is intriging and the characters well rounded. I loved the humor as well. In my favorite line, the heroine says to a guy, in part, “dippity-do head, slick.” It cracked me up.
I highly recommend this book as well as the one before it, Stolen Treasures.
They are both available at my publisher’s website on Laurie’ page: http://www.bookstrand.com/pirates-promise as well as Amazon.com and other sales outlets.
Jillian Chantal 
Arrgh! Love me some pirates! And especially love books that get the legal stuff right, as you know. Will have to read these!
By: Arabella Stokes on October 10, 2011
at 8:43 am
Yep! Me, too. We are uber picky about that, aren’t we?
By: Jillian Chantal on October 10, 2011
at 9:09 am
I’ve read both of Laurie’s books and loved them. She nails the characters and they stayed with me. And, the cover…. wow!
By: Lavada Dee on October 10, 2011
at 11:50 am
They ARE both great, Lavada- ye speaketh the truth.
By: Jillian Chantal on October 10, 2011
at 11:52 am
I like it when the writer takes the time to research their characters. I read a book once where the MC was a therapist in a rehab facility and it was all wrong. I was like, really? Thanks for recommending a great pirate story.
By: Ciara Knight on October 10, 2011
at 3:53 pm
I agree. Research is vital. I read one (well I started one) the other day and tossed it aside at like page 25 when the woman got a call from her lawyer telling her some new that would never, ever happen in real life. NEVER! I couldn’t read the rest of it.
Laurie’s books are wonderful.
By: Jillian Chantal on October 10, 2011
at 4:05 pm
Hi, Jillian and everyone. I’ve been out of town and just now got a chance to comment on this blog post. Thank you so much for the kind words about my story. Pirate’s Promise was a great book to write and I definitely fell in love with my pirate, Hawk. Er, I guess I should call him Julia’s pirate, since I already have a hero in my life. 🙂
Thank you, also, for validating the legal stuff was right. I research and inteview, but always worry I’m interpreting something wrong. 🙂
By: Laurie Ryan on October 17, 2011
at 3:13 pm
It was a great book, Laurie and Hawk was quite yummy.
Yep. You did good, my friend, on the legal stuff. I recently threw down one that was totally off base.
By: Jillian Chantal on October 17, 2011
at 3:24 pm