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THE PIRATE QUEEN is now climbing the Pulpwood Queen’s bestseller list–currently at number 6!
5 Star Read! Exquisitely written, The Pirate Queen has taken a place in my top 10 for 2010. The story is complex and yet deceptively simple. Hickman’s characters virtually stepped off the pages and into my life, as I experienced Saphora’s cornucopia of emotions. If The Pirate Queen were a meal, I’d be completely full. As a novel, I’ll call it rich and satisfying.~ Novel Journey
4 Star Romantic Times Rating for THE PIRATE QUEEN!
Hickman’s latest is quietly affecting. The well-drawn characters sneak into the reader’s heart and the Southern setting places the reader in the midst of the story. Take time to savor the richly detailed plot.~ ROMANTIC TIMES
The envy of all her friends, wife and mother Saphora Warren is the model of southern gentility and accomplishment. She lives in a beautiful Lake Norman home, and has raised three capable adult children. But she’s also married to a successful, yet philandering plastic surgeon. It is for that reason that, after hosting a garden party for Southern Living magazine, Saphora packs her bags to escape the trappings of the picturesque-but-vacant life. Her planned destination is a neglected family bungalow on the Outer Banks.
Saphora’s departure, though, is interrupted by her husband Bender’s early arrival home and his words that change her life forever: I’m dying.
Against her desires, Saphora agrees to take care of Bender, who instructs her to take him to fight his illness in their coastal home in Oriental—the same house to which she had planned her get-away. When her idyllic escape is overrun by her grown children, grandchildren, townspeople, relatives, and a precocious neighbor child, Saphora’s escape to paradise is anything but the life she had imagined.
“Patricia Hickman’s THE PIRATE QUEEN took me by surprise. At the start, I thought I was reading a Southern-style Danielle Steel. Then I found I was settling into a one-of-a-kind family drama. Tender, compelling, outstanding. A keeper to pass on to your friends–your best friends!” ~Lyn Cote author of Her Abundant Joy 6-1-10
Patricia Hickman’s THE PIRATE QUEEN explores the question that haunts us all: ‘am I enough?’ Saphora Warren has all the trappings of the good life, yet is trapped in her own good graces. The words are poetic, the story is sublime: you will root for this good woman to claim the treasure we all seek: a life full of lo ve. The PQ will steal your heart as well.~ Leslie Lehr, author of Wife Goes On
“In The Pirate Queen, Patricia Hickman weaves together a rich story of forgiveness and grace. Her characters stole my heart, and I struggled and then cheered alongside them as their lives were refined and then transformed. The Pirate Queen will steal your heart. Highly recommended!” ~Melanie Dobson, author of Love Finds You in Homestead, Iowa and Refuge on Crescent Hill
