Around the World in 80 Days Mini Reading Challenge: Caribbean

Will Morgan's new vacation neighbors turn into more?

Morgan has writer’s block and a ten-year-old moving into the house across the shared yard at her vacation rental can’t possibly help. Neither can the distraction of his lovely mother. Will a vacation fling turn into more?

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When pirate captain Margo's husband goes missing after a Spanish attack, she and her first mate and lover Elara will turn the Caribbean seas red to avenge him.

Captain Margo (O’Shea) Flynn is vengeance-bent after her husband’s disappearance at the hands of the Spanish. With her loyal first mate Elara by her side, she launches a daring raid on her enemies. But her thirst for retaliation puts her on a collision course with Don Alfonso, the man who killed Margo’s first love years ago and will stop at nothing to destroy her.

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A girls' trip in the Caribbean turns into so much more.

Midwest-transplant, Mercy Lewis, has always been responsible. She wore sunscreen to the beach. A lifejacket on a boat. She crossed the street at crosswalks. She enjoyed life in moderation, and she didn’t indulge. So why is she having such a hard time when she meets a beautiful expatriate on a tropical island?

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The Raven and the Banshee is a passionate tale of vengeance, forgiveness and second chance love in a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas.

It’s the early 1700s and sixteen-year-old Julia Farrow, spirited daughter of a shipping company owner, lives and loves on her own terms. With a sharp mind and sharper tongue, she constantly defies family and society expectations with no regard for the consequences.

Branna Kelly, only child of an Irish immigrant sailor, is hopelessly in love with Julia and imagines their life together as captains of their own fate. Left brokenhearted after Julia’s rejection, she embarks on a journey to chart a new shipping route to the Caribbean. Before Julia can explain her decision, Branna’s ship is overrun by merciless pirates. All hands are presumed lost.

Spencer Collins lives life virtually, keeping the real world—and everyone in it—at a distance.

When she’s given a chance to spend a week surrounded by sun, sand, and hundreds of women on a lesbian cruise, she has the opportunity to venture outside her comfort zone. If, that is, she can muster the courage.

Charlotte Southwick always has a plan.

Boarding her honeymoon cruise alone and decidedly unmarried wasn’t her intention. Neither was running into her high school love on board. Lexi looks so confident, and so hot, and so irresistible…. How could she have let this woman get away?

A steamy high seas romance.

Grey Wells, the owner and captain of the Veritas, is the most complicated person Lauren has ever met. Cold and distant one minute and cautiously friendly the next, Lauren’s compelled to get to know her better. What happens when she does, however, will change both of their lives forever.

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A sexy Egyptian has consentacle fun in the Caribbean!

Kione Ali is a treasure hunter after Blackbeard’s booty! But while hunting for her prize, she never expected to find a sentient tenacle creature. One that wants to pleasure Kione in every way possible. Will she give in to her kinky curiosity and have the most amazing consentacle sex ever?

Hot MILF Alex goes on a cruise with her 20-year-old girlfriend and the ocean's not the only thing that's getting super-wet!

Alex Master is going on a cruise! With her new girlfriend Melody, who just happens to be her daughter’s best friend and loves making Alex submit in super-kinky ways. Find out exactly how wet they’ll get on the ship and on every island they visit!

Shani Mootoo’s haunting debut took the international literary world by storm.

Set in the fictional Caribbean town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin, an aging, notoriously crazy woman suspected of murdering her father. When a judge finds Mala unfit to stand trial, she is delivered, frail and mute, to the Paradise Alms House and into the care of Tyler, a vivacious male nurse, who becomes the unlikely storyteller of Mala’s extraordinary life. In luminous, sensual prose, Mootoo explores identity, gender, and violence in a celebration of our capacity to love despite cruelty and despair.

The Gulf of Mexico, 1702: When pirates of the square-rigger Original Sin steal ashore to abduct a doctor to tend to their wounded, they end up settling for the doctor’s attractive fiancée—Celia Pierce, the town seamstress.

Together with Gayle Malvern, daughter of wounded pirate captain “Madman” Malvern, Celia becomes a reluctant participant in an unexpectedly thrilling journey through the Caribbean. For Gayle, Celia’s presence is at first a welcome and shapely distraction, but as her attraction to the seamstress deepens, she realizes that Celia comes to mean more to her than is almost certainly prudent. As Celia and Gayle navigate the perilous territories of gypsies, prostitutes, mercenaries, and slave-traders, they forge a partnership born of necessity that Gayle soon hopes will veer away from insurmountable danger—and instead detour directly to her bed.

Four women, a long-lost treasure, and more than one “thief of hearts” share a destiny beyond time.

To foil a map thief, librarian Emma Boyd searches for a pirate’s long-lost treasure map. She’s aided in her search by investigator Randi Marx, who proves to be as frustrating as she is beautiful.

A woman sent to seduce a landowner into selling her property for development instead finds herself seduced by the lush island and the very woman she was supposed to fleece.

When Ellie Birdsong, an ambitious young real estate developer, is sent from Atlantic City to Puerto Rico to “charm the panties off” landowner Carla Valdez, the last thing she expects is to be seduced by the lush island, Carla’s two troubled adopted young sons, and Carla herself.

After the stress of a long Navy project and Kerry's father's death, Dar and Kerry decide to take their first long vacation together.

A cruise in the eastern Caribbean is just the nice, peaceful time they need – until they get involved in a family feud, an old murder, and come face to face with pirates as their vacation turns into a race to find the key to a decades old puzzle.

The Emerald Duchess sets sail for the serene Caribbean, but the passengers are headed for the chaos of romance.

Kelly Ridenour couldn’t be happier. She’s leaving the bitter Rochester winter behind and going with new friends on a fabulous vacation. Even better, her cabin mate is Natalie Chatham, the lovely lady of Kelly’s recent daydreams.

A failed relationship has sent registered nurse Jaye Northrup fleeing from home and looking for sanctuary.

She finds it in a remote village on the Caribbean island of Isla Santuario where she and dentist Megan Willett (Willie) create a tropical haven ministering to the poor. Jaye finally has everything in her life under control… until Willie is kidnapped by drug traffickers.

Tragedy and heartbreak drive Dana McComb to a Caribbean island where she sets about to becoming a hermit.

Settling into numbness seems to be the only way to suppress the psychic visions that once showed her the death of her soul mate. A failed rebound relationship leaves her even more intent on losing herself in the loneliness of her isolated house on the hill. With her middle-aged, beef jerky obsessed Tom cat, Dana vows to live a life devoid of ups and downs. Making fun of her own state of mind, she and her best buddy start “The Love Sucks Club” which is really just a euphemism for sitting around bitching about their own bitterness about love.

With unsuspected humor and switchbacks at every turn, The Right Closet flips the script, proving once again that politics makes for strange bedfellows.

Creama LaCroppe is San Francisco’s sensational Puerto Rican drag queen diva extraordinaire. Her nemesis is the venomous anti-LGBT Congressman Dick Peak. When Creama is recruited to follow Peak to Puerto Rico to expose his dirty deals, she reluctantly agrees.

Then their plane ditches in the Caribbean and the lifeboats disappear before Creama can evacuate with the unconscious congressman in tow.

A clever, romantic novel based on the true story of a girl who disguised herself as a boy to sail with the infamous pirates Anne Bonny and Calico Jack—and fell in love with Anne Bonny.

There’s no place for a girl in Mary’s world. Not in the home of her mum, desperately drunk and poor. Not in the household of her wealthy granny, where no girl can be named an heir. And certainly not in the arms of Nat, her childhood love who never knew her for who she was. As a sailor aboard a Caribbean merchant ship, Mary’s livelihood—and her safety—depends on her ability to disguise her gender.

At least, that’s what she thinks is true. But then pirates attack the ship, and in the midst of the gang of cutthroats, Mary spots something she never could have imagined: a girl pirate.

Can one night really lead to something more?

Pro-surfer, Scout doesn’t want to take a break but with an injury she’s forced to relax. When she meets Judith, isn’t swayed by Scout’s fame but she does find the woman intriguing. They quickly get wrapped up in one another’s sheets, but could it become so much more?

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