Swashbuckler — Leslie Claire Walker

Hatch knows fraternity parties, intermittent studying, and life inside a bloody horror novel. What he doesn't know -- how to escape a centuries-old pirate bent on revenge -- could kill him. When the pirate strikes, Hatch breaks through a wall -- and out of his book -- into a paranormal romance with the enemy hot on his trail. He hopes the tough girl detective he falls in love with can save him. And that he can save her.

Leslie Claire Walker's fiction has appeared in Chiaroscuro, Fantasy Magazine, Electric Velocipede, GUD Magazine, and various DAW Books anthologies.