Abstract of the book "The Emperor’s Pirate"

Lin Zheng never believed in fate. At thirty-six, she is one of the best officers in China’s maritime anti-smuggling division — sharp-tongued, fearless, impossible to intimidate, and far more comfortable among rough sailors than polite society. She trusts logic, discipline, and the sea. Not people. Especially not men. But after a storm throws her overboard during a nighttime operation, Lin wakes aboard a pirate fleet in nineteenth-century China… in the body of the infamous widow of the pirate lord Zheng Yi. Surrounded by captains who expect weakness, betrayal, or bloodshed, Lin quickly realizes one terrifying truth: if she wants to survive, she must become more dangerous than all of them. The empire wants the pirates destroyed. The pirates want power. The sea wants blood. And somewhere amon