The Pirate Prince: Lords of the Var® Book 5: A Qurilixen World Novel

Michelle M. Pillow

Feb 2006 · Lords of the Var® Book 5 · The Raven Books LLC

About this eBook

Cat-shifter Pirate Prince Jarek sails the high sky in his spaceship doing as he pleases… that is until intergalactic drug dealers take his pilot hostage. But the rescue mission goes wrong when, instead of a crewman, he liberates a woman who he believes is desperately trying to escape her captors. 

Jarek soon discovers he unwittingly kidnaped a princess.

Princess Mei has just learned her future from a psychic, and it seems fate is giving her in marriage to a neighboring ruler. She will do her duty, but first, she wants to experience an adventure. When the alien pirate comes to steal, she knows precisely which alpha male she wants that adventure to be with.

Cat-Shifter Paranormal Sci Fi Fantasy Romance

Book Five of the Lords of the Var® series by NY Times and USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Michelle M. Pillow.

"The Pirate Prince rocked." Joyfully Reviewed (2013)

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About Lords of the Var Series

The cat-shifter princes were raised to not believe in love, especially love for one woman, and they will do everything in their power to live up to their father’s expectations. Oh, how the mighty will fall.

Praise For The Pirate Prince

5 STARS! "A rollicking tale of futuristic adventure and romance... one of my new favorites!" JERR (Just E. Romance Reviews) (2013)

5 ANGELS! "Michelle Pillow has done an amazing job at incorporating multiple emotions and dangers within this plot, offering readers an explosive experience upon completion. I would highly recommend this story! The Pirate Prince is tremendously worth every one of its angels. Is it still called a standing ovation when only one person is doing it because I assure you this reader is standing, applauding, and cheering Michelle Pillow and The Pirate Prince. It is definitely a keeper." Fallen Angels Reviews (2013)

5 CUPS! "Ms. Pillow's work is wickedly funny, erotically charged, action-packed, and so wonderful it makes a reviewer hunt up the adjectives to describe it properly... highly recommend this book and give it five steaming cups." Coffee Time Romance (2013)

5 STARS! "This book has everything a reader could want: action, adventure, hot sex and even a shape shifter. The developing love story between Jarek and Mei is beautifully woven into the story. Now that all of the Princes have found their mates, I hope this is not the last story about these men. I loved this book and all the colorful characters in it." Ecataromance (2013)

Lords of the Var® series:

The Savage King

The Playful Prince

The Bound Prince

The Rogue Prince

The Pirate Prince

A Qurilixen World Novel

The Qurilixen World is an extensive collection of paranormal, fantasy, and science fiction romance novels by award-winning author, Michelle M. Pillow, and includes several series installments: Dragon Lords, Lords of the Var®, Space Lords, Captured by a Dragon-shifter, Galaxy Alien Mail Order Brides, Dynasty Lords, Qurilixen Lords, and more.

Topics: Shapeshifter, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fated Mate, Alpha Male, Alien Romance, futuristic romance, comedy, shapeshifter romance, cat shifter, Science Fiction & Fantasy, prince, Dragon Romance, futuristic, Shifter Romance, Sci-Fi, Alien Romance, Paranormal Romance, nobility, royalty, action and adventure, romantic comedy, fantasy, sci-fi, First Contact, hea, humorous romance, romantic adventure, sfr, space exploration, werepanther, panther shifter, kick ass heroine, first contact romance, big cat, big cat romance, dragon shifter, kick butt chick, space romance. Perfect for fans of Gena Showalter, Laurann Dohner, Charlene Hartnady, Darynda Jones, S. E. Smith, Evangeline Anderson, Christine Feehan, Donna Grant, Rebecca Zanetti, Anna Hackett, JR Ward, Kresley Cole, Lynsay Sands, Nalini Singh, Genevieve Jack, Felicity Heaton, Jennifer L Armentrout, Carrie Ann Ryan, Elizabeth Hunter, Patricia Briggs, Laurell K. Hamilton, Lora Leigh, Alisa Woods.

Ratings and reviews

Princes Mei has always wanted to see what was beyond the palace walls and the planet. But as the youngest princess of the Mutong Empire, she has never been allowed any freedom. When her dead great grandmother predicts that she will marry the first foreign man of royal blood whose path she crossed and that she would be pregnant with his child soon, she automatically assumes it is Prince Lok, from their neighboring kingdom, the Singhai Empire. She is scheduled to attend dinner at their palace with her brother that night. She can’t stand Lok on sight and prays that her great grandmother’s prediction is wrong. When she and her brother leave to go home, there is a disturbance at the palace gates where they have just left. Two women are fleeing and being taken onto a spaceship. Mei assumes that they are kidnapping the women and goes to fight, despite her brothers orders to stay on the ship. She crashed into one of the men who picks her up and jumps on the ship just as they take off. Well, she wanted space travel, but this wasn’t exactly how she was expecting it to happen. Jarek, Var Prince of Qurilixen, has landed on the planet Lintian to rescue their pilot Rick, who was taken prisoner by intergalactic drug traders. Supposedly he is being held in the purple jade mines on the planet. Two of his crew sneak into the palace disguised as women to try and find a map telling them where the mines are. Once they find the map, they try to leave but are seen and must make a hasty exit! When a ball of furious female crashes into him, he assumes she is trying to excape the man she was following. Jarek assumed she was his concubine. But being the gentlemen he is he can’t leave her behind when she succeeded in escaping her master! Boy was he wrong! What follows is hilarious and touching. Jarek and Mei dance around each other, neither one telling the truth, until Mei sees the map they stole from the Singhai. They don’t know what they have, but she does, and it isn’t good for her people. A delightful book and the last Var Prince to meet his fated mate! Don’t miss it! I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

This author is actually one of my favorite authors. I have found myself recently devouring every book from her that I can get. This is her Lords of the Var series. This is a side world that’s in her Qurilixen World. The lords of the Var are shifters, cat shifters. Most of them do tend to be very arrogant but when they meet their mate everything changes. This is the story of Prince Jarek Who spends most of his time being a space pirate, yes think guardians of the galaxy if you need to. The female lead is Princess Mei. She has recently learned that she was going to be forced into a marriage she wanted. She doesn’t want to disgrace her family so she is willing to go along with their plans but not until she has one last adventure before she stuck in a life that she will hate. Cat shifters don’t believe in love. But when he accidentally kidnapped her he finds that he has a bit more off than he can chew. Sparks fly because she has already decided that she wants him to be her last little adventure. The problem is can he give her up? I may have had some problems with the female lead at first but she grew on me as I read the story.

This delightful story is about our Pirate Prince Jarek, cat-shifter, and the Zhang Princess Mei was a very enjoyable space romp romance to read, and I volunteer to review via Booksprout. Loved that the characters from Sam's ship along with our romantic couple in this engaging story of Prince Jarek finding his mate in this series. Our playboy Rick, pilot of the Conqueror and friend goes missing after being seen with a group of women. Jarek goes to search and rescue his friend who he finds was taken by drug traders. On the rescue mission, Princess Mei who's been told by her Great-Grandmother she will be married and have a child in eight months sees the Conqueror crew fleeing and tries to stop them. Jarek takes Mei with them. This enjoyable story is another page turner in this wonderful series.

About the author

Michelle M. Pillow, New York Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Author

NYT & USAT Bestselling Author Michelle M. Pillow is an award-winning paranormal and sci-fi romance; mystery; and paranormal women's fiction (PWF) writer with well over a million books sold. Though she writes intricate plots, she can never seem to remember where she left her coffee cup (if you find it please return).

Michelle is always up for a new adventure or challenge, whether it's a paranormal investigation of an old Vaudeville Theatre or climbing Mayan temples in Belize. She was a refugee extra on SyFy's Z Nation. Michelle is involved with various film and historical documentary projects with her filmmaker husband. She's mom to a talented artist daughter, and managed by the family dog and cat. For the most part she can be found wearing pajama pants and drinking coffee. There may or may not be dancing. It’s all part of the creative process.

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