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My Salty Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

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My Salty Mary

The Lady Janies

by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows

Narrator Nneka Okoye

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Length 10 hours 54 minutes

Language English

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“A playful retelling and expansion on the little mermaid. Pirates, and plucky courageous women, and treasure, and cheeky references make this read a delight from start to finish! ”
— Samara • Notably, A Book Lover's Emporium

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“If you believe women or mermaids can be pirates, find love, set boundaries, and be vulnerable, you will enjoy this delightful tale. I laughed out loud often while I was listening to it!”
— Samantha • Raven Book Store

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“Ahoy mateys! This book is filled with good pirate fun. Throw in a splash of mermaids and some Swifty references to the mix & it’s just gold! The narrator is funny and quirky and this book is just so very entertaining. I highly recommend it!”
— Morgan • Fred & June's Books

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“I thoroughly enjoyed the silliness. I swear there were some lines from The Princess Bride in it, in an 'ode to PB' dort of way. my family kept looking at me like I was crazy for bursting out laughing while making dinner. This is the best kind of clever silliness. ”
— I laughed and laughed • Books Etcetera

Summary
About the authors

My Lady Jane fixed Jane Grey’s tragic past—and now My Salty Mary will do the same for the infamous pirate Mary Read!

Perfect for fans of The Princess Bride and A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, New York Times bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows are back with a fantastical, romantical, and piratical historical fantasy remix that marries the story of The Little Mermaid with the life and times of infamous lady pirate Mary Read.

Don't call this mermaid ""little""—call her ""captain,"" unless you want to walk the plank.

Mary is in love with the so-called prince of Charles Town, except he doesn't love her back. Which is inconvenient. Since she's a mermaid, being brokenhearted means she'll—poof!—turn into sea-foam.

But instead, Mary finds herself pulled out of the sea and up onto a pirate ship. To survive, she joins them. But Mary isn't willing to just sing the yo-ho-hos. She wants the pirate life, all of it, and she's ready to make a splash . . . by becoming captain. But when Blackbeard dies suddenly, Mary has a chance to become so much more: Pirate King . . . or Queen. She won't let anyone stop her—not Blackbeard's cute son, not her best friend from back under the sea who's having a bit too much fun with his new legs, and certainly not everyone who says she can't be a pirate just because she's a girl.

She may not be the best man for the job, but she'll definitely prove that she's worth her salt.

And don’t miss the Prime Video streaming hit My Lady Jane!

Romance Historical Fiction YA Fiction

The Lady Janies are made up of New York Times bestselling authors Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows. They first met in 2012, when their publishers sent them on a book tour together, and they hit it off so well they decided to write My Lady Jane so they could go on book tours together all the time. Between the three of them they’ve written more than twenty published novels, a bunch of novellas, a handful of short stories, and a couple of really bad poems. They’re friends. They’re writers. They’re fixing history by rewriting one sad story at a time. Learn more at ladyjanies.com.