num_pages: 146
description: Prince Alessander's twin sister Celandine has long been promised to the pirate lord Dagon Blackstone who demanded a royal bride as the price for peace. On the night they are first meant to meet she convinces Alessander to don her clothes and go in her place as a prank on the sea monster that is to be her husband. He goes along with the prank and finds himself unexpectedly intrigued by the larger-than-life Dagon. Dagon is a worldly man more amused--and aroused--than scandalized by discovering a boy in a bodice pretending to be his betrothed. When the deception is revealed though Cel is nowhere to be found: she's fled the royal isle leaving her brother a scapegoat in her skirts. Their father offers to hunt her down but Dagon declines: he will use his own fleet to find his runaway princess and he is taking along insurance. Alessander is brought aboard his flagship as a hostage albeit an honored oneand until Celandine is found he must serve as Dagon's royal 'bride'.
language: None
title: The Peacock Prince
publisher: None