It Started with a Pirate — Kirsty Ferry

Coffee, cake and cats ...These are a few of Lexie Farrington's favourite things, and when she walks into the Thistledean Café in Edinburgh, she's delighted to find all three: coffee, cake, a big black cat on a purple lead being held by a very grumpy-looking pirate. Okay, maybe she wasn't quite expecting that one ...Of course, Billy McCreadie isn't really a pirate; he just knows a lot about them and is on his way to give a historical talk to school kids, hence the get-up. He's also in desperate need of a cat sitter. When Lexie steps in, little does she realise that Billy will be the key to a hidden Edinburgh she would have never discovered herself, and he might also be the man to help solve a certain piratical puzzle of her own ...