Bandry: The Reluctant Pirate — M.R. Miller

In the Age of Adventure, a French Count, on his way to the New World to improve his family's fortune, loses his wares and money and is forced into a secret identity and a new career as a pirate. Using his education and leadership skills, Bandry rises to the top of his new profession in a quest to restore the family honor and fortune. In the process, he creates another identity to help him escape the constraints and guilt of piracy that torment him. While leading this life of duel identities, both of which could cause instant death, Bandry discovers his essence and value as a human being.Struggling to extricate himself from his pirate identity, Bandry's life in complicated by Solene's rescue and subsequent guardianship driven by a suppressed sense of nobility. Solene's youth, inexperience, and struggle to escape her gilded prison test the limits of Bandry's resolve. This jeopardizes and adds unneeded complications to his plans to restore himself to his previous status. Can Bandry succeed in his mission or will he be exposed and face a horrible death at the hands of the Pirates or the authorities.