The Pirate Prince (Lords of the Var, 5) [Paperback]

Michelle M. Pillow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2007

The Pirate... Prince Jarek has no official title in space. Known simply as Captain to a misfit crew, he sails the high sky doing what he pleases. That is until one of his men is kidnapped by intergalactic drug dealers. Now he's on a mission to save his wayward friend. But instead of a crew man, he rescues a woman desperately trying to be free of her master. Or so he thought... The Princess... Princess Zhang Mei has just been told her future by a seer. It seems fate has given her in marriage to Prince Song Lok--future ruler of the only other dynasty on her home planet of Líntian. She will do her duty to her family, but first she wants something for herself. And when the pirates come to steal, she knows exactly what she wants that something to be--her. Rating: Contains graphic sexual content, adult language, and violence.

Product Details

• Paperback
• ISBN-10: 1603940103
• ISBN-13: 978-1603940108
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,610,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ever since she can remember, Michelle M. Pillow had a strange fascination with anything historical or supernatural--ghosts, magical powers, and oh! vampires. What could be more alluring than being immortal, all-powerful, and eternally beautiful?

Michelle M Pillow, Author of All Things Romance, is a multi-published, award winning author writing in many romance fiction genres including futuristic, paranormal, historical, contemporary, fantasy and dark paranormal. She is nominated for the 2011 RT Lifetime Achievement Award, winner of the 2006 RT Reviewers' Choice Award, nominated for the 2007 RT Award, a Brava Novella Contest Finalist and a PAN member of RWA.

Michelle is an accomplished photographer. She writes a monthly interview column and is a journalist for Paranormal Underground Magazine. She has a Photography degree and is currently working towards a degree in History.

Readers can contact her through her author website www.MichellePillow.com
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Pirate Prince, July 10, 2008

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This review is from: The Pirate Prince (Lords of the Var, 5) (Paperback)

Princess Zhang "Mei" is upset by the news her ancestor tells her is in her future. She believes fate has led her to marry Prince Song Lok, the Prince of the rival dynasty on her planet. Mei feels honor bound to follow the path she believes fate has set for her.

Prince Jarek, a Var Prince and Space Captain, flies where he wants and does as he pleases, without the royal title. Currently, Jarek is making plans to rescue a crewmember that's been abducted by a drug ring. The first rescue attempt is botched and instead of the missing crewmember, Jarek comes back to the ship with Mei.

Mei and Jarek's initial encounter is based on a misunderstanding, but they both need the other for something. Neither admits to their true identities at first. Jarek needs Mei's assistance in finding his friend and Mei needs Jarek to take her home so she can alert her family with the important information she has come across. Mei and Jarek also desire each other and though each tries to fight the attraction, eventually they have to give in.

Jarek wants to make Mei his mate, and have her sail around with him forever. Mei, however, she still plans to go through with her duties to marry Prince Lok. When Jarek returns Mei home and meets her family, she learns the truth of what fate has in her future.

The Pirate Prince rocked. Mei and Jarek worked well together, as a couple and as rescuers. They were steamy hot in one scene, and calm and collected in the next. I was glad that Mei in the end realized that her fate was with Jarek. Jarek's family was comical at the end of the book, the polar opposite of Mei's, which made for a sweet ending.

The Pirate Prince was the first book in the Lords of the Var series that I have read, but I'll definitely be reading the previous stories.

Cerise
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not my favorite heroine, August 12, 2011

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Milly B "Aiden's Mommy" (NYC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Pirate Prince (Lords of the Var) (Kindle Edition)

I gotta say I loved all the women in the previous books (including the draig series) some more than others, but I just could NOT like Mei for some reason. I just didn't see Jarek with someone like her. I saw him more with someone like Sam. While he was absolutely the perfect man all around lol she was just so petty and didn't seem real enough to me. The whole story was ruined for me because of her.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow another terrific book in the last of the Var, July 30, 2008

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Heather Watkins (Franklin, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Pirate Prince (Lords of the Var, 5) (Paperback)

The Pirate Prince (Lords of the Var, 5)

Rick, from the previous book, from the crew of Sam's ship, which is now combined with Prince Jarek's crew has been kidnapped. Prince Jarek and his crew land on another planet that is quite like the Asian geography of Earth.

Princess Mei has been told of her fate. However this fate that has been told is not the fate that she thinks it is. She is in very need of adventure and takes off with Prince Jarek and his crew by force yet by willingness.

Due to some damage to the ship, they float in space for a while and of course the princess and prince get to know each other. He expects the princess to be hard to get but she quickly gives in.

It is quite exciting to read as to what this exquisite romance as you will see it as well.