Title: The Determined Categories: Biography, Female Protagonist, Fiction Author: Rachel Rueckert Narrator: Polly Lee Publisher: Dreamscape Media Release date: 02-24-2026 Language: English
Summary: Set during the Golden Age of Pirates, this luminous novel of historical fiction based on the real experiences of the era’s most fascinating pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read, upends all stereotypes of female pirates and excavates these two figures out of the male gaze of history in a story of passion, fierce female friendships, and women confronting the impossible.
1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, twenty-three-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles Johnson enters the garrison, she strikes a deal: she’ll tell this opportunistic fool about her life if he sends a doctor to her friend, Mary Read, who’s battling prison fever in isolation.
For Anne and Mary, life at sea offers a freedom that few women ever know. Born to an Irish gentleman and his maid, Anne leaves her beloved County Cork behind when her family emigrates to South Carolina to escape prejudice. Cornered in a crisis, she flees, making a bitter bargain for safe passage to the Bahamas.
Across the Atlantic in England, Mary confronts her own limitations as an illegitimate daughter. Sneaking into a merchant crew, she disguises herself as a cabin boy, working harder than the men to avoid scrutiny.
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