This is the Author's Cut, an expanded version that includes

lost chapters and deleted scenes.

He steals for the French crown.

She heals for the Catholic church.

He will heal her heart.

She will steal his.

To complete a mission for the French crown, a former pirate must either commit treason or betray the woman he secretly loves. One sends him to the guillotine, the other straight to hell. 

French Privateer, Captain Drago Gamponetti is given one final mission from his employer, the king of France: reclaim religious relics from a New Orleans. Trouble begins when he's forced by a mysterious, veiled, novitiate nun to swear on the Bible to protect the very items he was instructed to steal.

Novitiate nun and healer, Eva Trudeau hides more than her face behind the veil. The convent has been her safe haven since she crawled, beaten and bloody, to its door nine years ago. When an old enemy re-surfaces and threatens to drag her back into the dark underworld from where she’d escaped, both she and her dark pirate captain stand to lose everything they’ve fought so hard to protect...including each other. 

This series is about strong independent women and rakish bad boy pirates, wrapped up in women's action and adventure sea stories. If you enjoy romantic action and adventure, action and adventure fiction, action and adventure romance fiction, family saga fiction, historical romance or women's fiction, you'll love the Pirates & Petticoats series.