A cursed jacket. A vanished romance. A debt the sea never forgot.

Love Wakes the Dead on Pamlico Sound.

The Pirates of Pamlico Sound is a supernatural historical romance where a pirate artifact from the 1700s reignites modern marriages and unburies old wrongs tied to Salem, witchcraft, Blackbeard, and the haunted coast of North Carolina.

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The hook

A 300-year-old pirate jacket changes everything.

The presentBernice, Nicki, and Jayne are successful, restless, and watching the magic slip out of their marriages.
The objectBernice acquires an authentic pirate jacket from the 1700s. When the husbands put it on, old desire starts moving again.
The pastThe jacket's history reaches back through Salem, the Outer Banks, witchcraft, betrayal, and blood on the water.
The reckoningA romance rekindled in the present may be the key to righting terrible wrongs from long ago.

A glimpse into the tale

Some artifacts do not stay buried.

The novella moves between modern Outer Banks life and the dangerous world of the late 1600s and early 1700s, where love, faith, ambition, and survival collide with pirates and accusations of witchcraft.

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Past and present collide.

The story begins with faded romance in the present, then pulls backward into 1692 Salem and the dangerous shoreline world that eventually leads to Pamlico Sound. The pirate jacket becomes a bridge between ordinary disappointment and supernatural repair.

Meet the haunted cast.

Aithne Reade escapes the Salem witch trials. Brenna Reade inherits her mother's perilous legacy. Chogan, a Wokokon medicine man, mentors Brenna. Herve Grellier meddles with paint and piety. And Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, stalks the historical edge of the tale.

For readers who want

Romance with salt in the wound.

This is for readers drawn to supernatural romance, historical mystery, pirate lore, witchcraft, cursed objects, coastal atmosphere, second chances, and old love that refuses to stay dead.

Set sail before the jacket finds someone else.

Enter a haunted romance of pirates, witches, lost passion, and the strange magic that drifts across Pamlico Sound.

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