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THE REDEMPTION
2006 Christy Award Nominee!
Charlisse Bristol sets off on a voyage in search of a father she never knew, only to become shipwrecked on an island. She longs for a father's love to fill the emptiness in her soul from an abusive childhood, but resigns herself to a lonely death of starvation. Her salvation comes in the form of a band of pirates and their fierce, enigmatic leader, Captain Merrick.
The last thing Merrick expected to find in the middle of the Caribbean was a beautiful maiden. Now he is burdened with the task of not only protecting her from his crew, but from himself. A recent convert to Christianity, Merrick is haunted by a sordid past while he struggles to become a better man and accepts a mission from God to hunt down the most vicious pirates on the Carribean.
Charlisse can make no sense of Captain Merrick. A pirate who prays and drinks rum? Breaking her vow to never trust any man, she finds herself falling for the pirate/priest, who more than once risks his life to save her. When she confides in him her quest to find her father, Merrick agrees to help. What he doesn't realize is Charlisse's father is the ruthless Edward the Terror, the one man Merrick has vowed to hunt down and kill.
Evil forces are at work against Charlisse and Merrick: enemies, battles, imprisonment, jealousy, and betrayal, all threaten to destroy not only their new found romance but their very lives. It will take a miracle -- or several -- for either of them to survive.
My Review:
published in 2014
A Swashbuckling marvel!
Seriously, who would think a pirate themed romance would work so well in a Christian Fiction novel?! Clearly, MaryLu Tyndall did since she's written an entire pirate series! And Captain Merrick of The Redemption starts it all off in toe-curling splendor!
This book has it all -- adventure on the high seas with danger and peril aplenty. As well as betrayal and treachery and even a shipwreck! It's a dashing cornucopia of epic piracy -- with a powerful redemptive twist!
I mean, there's Captain Merrick, a Christian pirate...and how does that work, you ask? Unbelievably well, actually but you just have to read the book to experience all that redemptive splendour for yourself. Then there's Charlisse, desperately searching for a father's love without realizing that her Father's love has been with her always. And oh, her personal history is gutwrenching! It's no wonder she's confused and defiant and desperately searching for love and acceptance.
And the romance! Shiver me timbers and fasten down my fainting couch, there's rough seas ahead! I rabid-listened to the audible edition of The Redemption (perfect title for so many reasons!) narrated by Becky Doughty who did an amazing job of bringing these characters and this story to life.
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