She gets into a confrontation with him, unaware of who he is, and when she later returns to the house, she finds that he is indeed Master Drummond’s son, and he isn’t very happy with Anne.
When Anne’s mother died shortly after, Anne found her way to Master Drummond’s house, and has been working there for a few months before she runs into Master Drummond’s son, Edward, at the market. Since her mother was a cook from far away islands, and her father was a rich merchant (their love was pretty much frowned upon), once Anne’s father died, she and her mother were tossed out on the street. Not really friends with the other staff in the house, and having no family (both her parents had passed away), Anne feels alone, and longs for the day when she is able to get away from the house she lives and works in. She shops at the market, she cleans, and she cooks.
But Blackhearts doesn’t really go on about Blackbeard as we know him, but rather the days before he became a pirate.Īnne is a maid in the house of Master Drummond. We all know Blackbeard, the fearsome pirate that really ruined a lot of sailors’ days out on the sea. Faced with an impossible choice, they must decide to chase their dreams and go, or follow their hearts and stay.īlackhearts is an original, sweet retelling that didn’t really seem like a retelling at all. Drawn to each other, they’re trapped by society and their own circumstances. How will she ever realize her dream of sailing to Curaçao-where her mother was born-when she's stuck in England?įrom the moment Teach and Anne meet, they set the world ablaze. Lonely days stretch into weeks, and Anne longs for escape. Though she’s barely worked a day in her life, Anne is forced to take a job as a maid in the home of Master Drummond. There's just one problem: convincing his father to let him leave and never come back.įollowing her parents' deaths, Anne Barrett is left penniless and soon to be homeless.
Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, Teach dreams only of returning to the vast ocean he’d begun to call home. Nothing could stop him-until he met the one girl who would change everything.Įdward "Teach" Drummond, son of one of Bristol's richest merchants, has just returned from a year-long journey on the high seas to find his life in shambles. But once he was just a young man who dreamed of leaving his rigid life behind to chase adventure in faraway lands. Blackbeard the pirate was known for striking fear in the hearts of the bravest of sailors.
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