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    The Scarlet Curse
    The Scarlet Curse
    The Scarlet Curse
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    The Scarlet Curse

    By Rita Schulz

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    Asia, a pirates daughter cursed by a witch to spend her life as a parrot. Will Captain Toby King of the pirate ship Black Arrow see through the magic to the beautiful woman beneath? 

    When Asia falls in love with Captain Toby King she desperately seeks a cure for her lonely heart. Will true love free her or will she live the rest of her life in misery?

    A tale of magic and romance set on the high seas with a swashbuckling pirate captain and a woman doomed by a terrible curse. Will true love win the day?
     

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher53rd Street Publishing
    Release dateJun 2, 2015
    ISBN9781513066660
    The Scarlet Curse
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    Rita Schulz

    Rita lives on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia with, Russ, her husband, who is also a fiction writer. She has written for years and is an alumnus of the Oregon Writers Network, and the Greater Vancouver Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Her most recently published stories are Fire in Their Hearts with R.G. Hart from Champagne books, and Ladies of the Jolly Roger and Tales of the Fantastic, from 53rd Street Publishing. Please visit her website at http://www.ritacrossley.com to view her other works.  

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      The Scarlet Curse - Rita Schulz

      The Scarlet Curse

      Rita Schulz

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Copyright 2015 Rita Schulz

      All rights reserved

      This is a work of fiction from the imagination of the author. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

      Cover photo: © Brianne Rankosky | Dreamstime.com

      Cover design by R. Edgewood using Adobe InDesign™.

      Ebook and cover layout © 53rd Street Publishing

      The Scarlet Curse

      I sat proud and straight on the shoulder of Cap’n Toby King as he walked up the steep wooden gangway to my new home, the Black Arrow.

      The first mate, Jangles, stood at the top of the gangway, leaning against the waist-high wooden railing of the sleek schooner, and glared at me as we walked past him. A bird-hater perhaps? I looked back at him briefly; his glare hadn’t been directed at me, but at the captain’s back. It wasn’t just a look, it was a really menacing glare, a look filled with hatred. I felt the small feathers at the nap of my neck stand up and shook myself to get them to settle. He might be trouble for the captain or me. I would have to keep my eye on him.

      Jangles had been the first mate aboard Cap’n Randy Black’s ship, the Royal Hound, and when the Black Arrow had been captured there was some talk that he would be made captain, but Toby King was given the ship instead.

      The Black Arrow was Cap’n Toby’s first ship, and with me being an experienced sea woman and pirate, he would need my help and advice. He just didn’t know it yet.

      The captain and I crossed the wide wooden deck to the stern of the ship. He quivered slightly and his shoulder muscles were tense under my claws; he was nervous. The ship was at anchor at Port Royal in the British Caribbean, the tall main mast with its English ensign snapped in the breeze, and everything looked to be in top shape. As we reached the stern, we proceeded through the small wooden door into the captain’s quarters.

      The captain’s quarters were a large room; one wall of small-paned windows in the stern of the ship let in streams of natural light. It had a large, built-in, double-sized bed with a fluffy blue quilt. Against the wall of windows sat a large, glossy, dark wooden desk, and in the center of the room was an antique oak dining table with high-backed chairs.

      A small, rectangular chart table butted up next to the dining table and held at least a dozen charts in the holder on its side.

      Cap’n Toby set me on a long, curved, wooden perch.

      It was in a good spot next to the desk, close enough so that I could see what the captain would be working

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