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Philippa Flynn's Year of Panic and Piracy

by Jacqueline Firkins

A fresh start by the sea, with pirate-romance complications

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A fresh start by the sea, with pirate-romance complications

A near-disaster prompts history professor Philippa Flynn to leave her carefully mapped life and move into the seaside home she inherited from her grandmother, a writer of swashbuckling romances. There she shares space with Dylan, a reclusive former cover model for the grandmother’s pirate novels. Their search for inspiration leads them to consider collaborating on six more books, though Philippa’s reliance on facts and Dylan’s writer’s block complicate the project. The novel brings creative partnership and awkward cohabitation into a story about changing direction, family proximity, and the boundary between imagined romance and real-life sparks.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in stories about starting over and changing established life plans.
  • Readers who enjoy romantic fiction with a creative collaboration at its center.
  • Readers drawn to seaside settings and swashbuckling-romance elements.

Themes

New beginningsCreative partnershipRomance and imaginationFamily tiesReinvention

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Book overview

An introverted history professor and a former romance cover model collaborate on a life-changing endeavor in a witty and swoonworthy novel about new beginnings in unexpected waters.

When a sinkhole nearly swallows her whole, burned-out history professor Philippa Flynn takes it as a wake-up call. Leaving her carefully planned but unfulfilling life behind, she moves into an old seaside house she inherited from her grandmother, a bestselling author of swashbuckling romances. Philippa expects the clutter, disrepair, proximity to the family she deliberately moved away from, and reclusive writer she'll be sharing the house with. She doesn't expect that writer to also be the cover model who personified Iris Flynn's bare-chested, cavalier-booted pirate king.

While navigating their awkward cohabitation and searching for creative inspiration, the pair discovers the outlines for six more novels they could work on together. But Philippa's used to facts, Dylan has writer's block, and neither can craft a love scene while real sparks are flying.

To write the story on the page, Philippa will have to embrace the one she's living, even if it means swapping tenure for treasure maps and plans for pirate kings.

(c) 2026 by Jacqueline Firkins, all rights reserved.

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