Pirate captain Flora Burn is the perfect centerpiece for novels by an author fascinated by the Golden Age of Pirates, the American Revolution, and Colonial life. She arrived on the Eastern Seaboard...view morePirate captain Flora Burn is the perfect centerpiece for novels by an author fascinated by the Golden Age of Pirates, the American Revolution, and Colonial life. She arrived on the Eastern Seaboard, as if from nowhere, following eradication of most pirates by the Royal Navy. Despite growing tensions, distrust, and spying between Americans and British, she shrouded the activities of her crew in near-total secrecy. With the American Revolution approaching, she and her crew vanished from history without leaving a trace. Captain Burn was a powerful and complicated woman; a female mix of Edmond Dantès (the Count of Monte Cristo) and Sir Francis Drake (explorer, pirate, warrior).view less