Faced with an impossible choice, Teach and Anne must decide whether to chase their dreams and leave England forever-or follow their hearts and stay together. Drawn together by a shared desire for freedom, but kept apart by Teach’s father, their love is as passionate as it is forbidden. Anne has become a maid in the Drummond household, where she meets seagoing scion Edward'Teachwhose father insists that he remain ashore to learn. How will she ever achieve her dream of sailing to Curaçao-her mother’s birthplace-when she’s trapped in England?įrom the moment Teach and Anne meet, they set the world ablaze. 9, 2016 In 1697 Bristol, England, the daughter of a wealthy merchant and his West Indian slave falls in love with the man who will become Blackbeard. Nicole Castroman brings the dangerous pirate ports of the Caribbean to life in this vibrant sequel to Blackheartsthe reimagined origin story of history’s most infamous pirate, Blackbeard.

Teach boards the Deliverance as first mate, and is given the nickname Blackbeard. Lonely days stretch into weeks and Anne longs to escape the confines of her now mundane life. Anne is now on a different merchant ship all together. Though she’s barely worked a day in her life, Anne takes a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond. There’s just one problem: he must convince his father to let him leave and never come back.įollowing the death of her parents, Anne Barrett is left penniless. Blackhearts Castroman, Nicole 3,360 ratings by Goodreads ISBN 10: 1481432702 /ISBN 13: 9781481432702 Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (edition Reprint), 2017 UsedCondition: GoodSoft cover Save for Later FromBooksRun(Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, all Teach wants is to return to the vast ocean he calls home. When Edward “Teach” Drummond, son of one of Bristol’s richest merchants, returns home from a year at sea, he finds his life in shambles.

In this stunningly creative debut “filled with well-drawn characters…and smoldering passion,” ( Booklist) Nicole Castroman reimagines the origins of history’s most infamous pirate-Blackbeard.

Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman