Natalie's Good Fortune - Anthony R Fanning - Bog

A tropical island paradise might as well be a prison when you're marooned; so learns sixteen year old, Natalie Brennan Satterfield, a proper English lady of London society. Set in 1722, NATALIE'S GOOD FORTUNE follows Natalie's adventures after the death of her mother in London when she sails for the colonies of America to join her father. Halfway across the Atlantic, the ship is beset by pirates. Managing a daring escape, the girl is marooned on an island only to face perils of which she little equipped to handle. To her good fortune, she finds a former privateer and pirate living on the island who teaches her to cope with the savage new world into which she has been cast. Determined, she learns she must work, she must think for herself, and she must fight. Everything the young English socialite has been taught she cannot do she is compelled to learn in order to survive and to escape her island prison. Natalie discovers more dangers ahead, the kind a pampered and privileged society girl should never know. Fleeing capture by pirates, escaping bloodthirsty cannibals, encountering a ship of half dead madmen, struggling to survive raging storms at sea, battling buccaneers on the open ocean, and finding a new family in those with whom she shares her adventures, Natalie lives the adventures of a lifetime, all packed into the year before her seventeenth birthday.ADVISORY - The stories in these books often describe graphic violence, strong sexual situations, nudity, alcohol consumption, drunkenness, smoking, and questionable morals which are generally applied to people who are underage in today's society.