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The wicked deep7/4/2023 Novoa ushers readers right into the lush world at the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, pitting people of indigenous heritage (including Mar) against the Spaniards who have colonized their lands. And the last time Mar used their full strength, they became a monster. It wasn’t magic enough to save their crew. Not only is the grief of losing their family, and their home, heavy on their shoulders, but they have to keep two secrets: first, Mar is nonbinary, something not everyone understands, and, more importantly, Mar has magic. Mar isn’t supposed to survive either, but when they wash up, rescued, on the deck of La Ana, ship of the only other remaining successful pirate in the Caribbean, they have to start anew. La Catalina, the ship that has been Mar’s home and sanctuary, will not survive the storm. Mar never believed the story-and on their sixteenth birthday, they find out that it’s true in the worst way.Įl Diablo has come to collect. Everyone knows the story: the famous pirate el Embrujado made a deal with the devil to protect his legacy, saving the life of infant Mar and giving the pirate and his crew a legendary run. Mar has been a beneficiary of their father’s devilish deal for sixteen years. Faustian bargains never turn out well for anyone but the devil, something the protagonist of Gabe Cole Novoa’s stunning new stand-alone pirate fantasy, The Wicked Bargain, knows very well.
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