Running Close of the Wind

Former field agent Avra Helvaçi has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world―and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must work with his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. Together, they will have to risk journeying to the Isles of Lost Souls pirate republic. The only things in their way? A calculating new ambassador; Brother Julian; a beautiful new member of the crew with secrets of his own; and the fact that they're sailing straight into sea-serpent breeding season and almost certain doom. But if they can find a way to survive and sell the secret on the black market, they will all be as wealthy as kings - and, more importantly, they will be legends...