Jeanne de Clisson was born in 1300, and this is an alternative history of a remarkable woman from history. She married the first of her three husbands when she was only twelve, and became leader of the Black Fleet of ruthless pirates in 1343. After thirteen years as the dreaded pirate chief known as 'The Lioness of Brittany', she went to England and married her third husband, Sir Walter Bentley. Jeanne possessed an incredibly powerful capable of intense love, devotion and loyalty at one extreme and of incomparable hatred and loathing at the other. She adored her second husband, Olivier, and his execution on the authority of the French King Philip VI set her on course to attack any French ship that came within reach of her pirate fleet. She would personally execute French aristocrats that fell into her hands, beheading them with her own axe – as revenge for the way her beloved Olivier had been beheaded. The Pirate Queen is an adventure story that examines her dynamic personality and psychological journeys to the extremes of love and hatred.