Pirate’s Prisoner by Elizabeth L. Brooks
Mance woke to darkness and a piercing pain in his head. For a heartbeat, he thought he was back home, waking after a night of carousing—but no, as he raised his hand to cup his tender skull, the rattle of chains and the cold grip of a manacle at his wrist recalled him to his plight.
The Loquacious had been set upon by pirates as they’d come around the last island. The rogue ship had been cleverly concealed from Mance’s ship—well, his father’s—by the island’s rocky outcroppings. But only the Loquacious would have been so surprised. No vessel approaching by any other route could have failed to notice them waiting in the open sea. It was almost as if they had known Captain Goode’s intended course.
They had fought the thieves, of course—the captain m
