The Pirate and the Princess

Publisher Marketing: When Kathy agreed to read Tim's latest book as he was writing his tale of piracy and royalty, she never could have imagined the passionate story that would open up to her. Kathy read the story of Lord Roanoke Westwind, a pirate. His world of pillage and plunder was turned upside down when fate took his ship broadside that of Princess Isabelle Millicent Heatherby. They had been friends until Lord Westwind's disappearance more than twenty years earlier. A spark lit in the cold heart of the dreaded pirate, known to the world as "The Dragon." Kathy delighted in the story of the Pirate and the Princess. As she read, she noticed the unmistakable resemblances between the princess, Belle, and herself. She was excited that Tim was using her likeness as the heroine in the book, but then she noticed something else. She could see that Roanoke was in fact Tim. Kathy questioned Tim about it. Tim replied, "All my life I have been just Tim. At any other place or time, I am just Tim. So when I write, I am always the hero. I have never been anyone's hero, anyone's knight in shining armor, anyone's handsome prince, so I write myself in my fairytales." The couple fall in love and write their own love story in the pages of passion. The two stories unfold in exciting similarities up to the royal wedding and the merging of two hearts, two lives and two stories. Love comes forth in it's own way, it's own time and just as it was meant to be, written in the sands of time. Contributor Bio:  Hunt, Tim A fourth-generation native of Northern California, Tim Hunt was born in Calistoga and raised primarily in Sebastopol, two small towns north of San Francisco. Educated at Cornell University, he has taught American literature at several schools, including Washington State University and Deep Springs College. He is currently Professor of English at Illinois State University, in Normal, Illinois. Hunt's poetry has been widely published in magazines, and he has published the chapbook Lake County Diamond. He has also been awarded the Chester H. Jones Prize for the poem "Lake County Elegy." FAULT LINES is his first full-length collection. His scholarly publications include Kerouac's Crooked Road: Development of a Fiction and the five-volume edition The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Tim Hunt's website is located at www.tahunt.com.