Red Jack's Pirate Adventures 3
- The Depth of Danish Delights
- The Widow and Eternal Lies
- Scandal on the Seven Seas
“Hook-up skirts and deep treasures”
What begins as a simple retrieval spirals into a three-way heist involving Spanish fortresses, sunken galleons, lovestruck officers, and a Danish craftswoman whose invention may change piracy forever.
As ‘Cutlass’ Liz and the ever-composed Penelope Byng infiltrate Spanish bureaucracy with blades and borrowed identities, Jack scales fortress walls and wagers his life on a wooden barrel-suit said to walk a man along the sea floor. Add a hungry Spanish crew and a seaweed woman to the mix, and this tale blends Caribbean intrigue, sensual mischief, and maritime cunning—proving that the most dangerous weapon on the high seas is a clever plan… well laid.
La Fortaleza sits slightly apart, elevated just enough to remind everyone who rules. Its walls are thick but softened by age, pale stone catching the sun. From the outside it looks calm, almost domestic. Inside is order and quiet authority. Courtyards. Shade. The scrape of quills and murmured councils. This is where decisions are announced, not argued. The governor does not want noise drifting up from below, and he rarely goes down there himself.
Penelope enters the area through streets that narrow as they rise, stone underfoot polished smooth by boots and rain. The smell shifts here from less market spice to more iron, tallow, damp paper, and old sweat. She heads for the Real Aduana—the Customs office.
Jack’s reasoning was simple: wrecks are money and in the Spanish world money lives at the Aduana. Ships are not merely naval assets; they are fiscal events and tax liabilities.
READ MOREWatching Penelope’s and Liz’s derrieres in their dresses leave the Bully Hayes, he wished them well. Penelope chose well: merchant’s dresses. Simple enough not to show riches but distinguished enough for any man to pay attention to their status.
And that is exactly what the Aduana official does. He sits up straight, a bit straighter when he hears Penelope’s Castilian.
In her duty to create Penelope Byng in the image of a perfect British lady, Mrs. Haversham required French and Castilian lessons. She emphasized that Spanish is what the uneducated call the language from Spain.
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