Other Oceans: Book Two of the Hook & Jill Saga (89 page)
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Authors: Andrea Jones
Tags: #Fantasy, #Fiction, #General
But her eyes opened as she felt Smee’s lips touch her neck. “Mr. Smee. You won’t forget the commodore’s command?”
“No, Ma’am,” Smee murmured against her skin, making her senses prickle with pleasure, “You know I’d never be disobeying him.”
Jill closed her eyes again.
“I’m ordered to be giving you his love. Whenever he’s not handy.”
She turned her head toward him in acknowledgment, relishing the warmth of his hands on her shoulders. Strong hands. Like Captain Cecco’s.
“Aye, Conor. I feel his love.”
As with the
Julianne
, as with all his prizes, Hook had arranged to leave her burning.
Acknowledgements
My appreciation to the officers of the fleet…
Jolene Barjasteh, Gary M. Burton, Stacy DeCoster, Victoria Everitt, Greg Gressle, Catherine Leah Condon-Guillemette, Erik Hollander, Maureen Holtz, Scott Jones, Kim, Mary Lawrence, Krista Menzel, Deena Sherman, Ginny Thompson, Peter Von Brown, Admiral Morgan Ramirez, and my fellow captains of Under the Black Flag.
Respect and honor to
Marie Gillette and Ruth Brauch of Rock Island High School,
who taught us to read, to write, and to think;
and to
Sir James Barrie,
the blackest pirate of them all.
And the brightest.
About the Author
Andrea Jones is the author of
Hook & Jill
, a serious parody of Sir James Barrie’s timeless tale,
Peter & Wendy
. Her debut novel,
Hook & Jill
won five literary awards, among them the Gold Award for Adult Fiction and Literature in the 2010 Mom’s Choice Awards®, and Best New Fiction in the 2010 International Book Awards.
Jones graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she studied Oral Interpretation of Literature, with a Literature Minor. In her career in television production, she worked for CBS, PBS, and corporate studios, also performing as on-camera and voice-over talent.
Jones’ work is informed by a broad range of thinkers and writers, among them Alexandre Dumas, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Carl Jung, P.G. Wodehouse, Robert Graves, Patrick O’Brian, Dorothy Dunnett, and, of course, Sir James Barrie, who created the modern mythology of the Neverland and its endearing, enduring characters.
Andrea Jones is known around the world as Capitana Red-Hand of the web-based pirate brotherhood, Under the Black Flag. She is also a proud member of the Brethren of the Great Lakes.
Jones’ home port is near Chicago.
Other Oceans
is Book Two of the
Hook & Jill
Saga. Keep a weather eye for Book Three,
Other Islands
.
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