International best-selling author Justin Somper’s Vampirates series is renowned for its swashbuckling adventure and imaginative plotting. The fourth book in the series, Black Heart picks up with twins Connor and Grace Tempest facing an uncertain future. When a famous pirate captain is killed by a vicious band of vampirates, the Pirate Federation commissions a ship of its own to hunt them down. With Connor on the offending ship and Grace on the other, will both twins make it out alive to continue searching for their mother?

With the best of swashbuckling adventure and ghoulish horror on the high seas, Justin Somper’s internationally acclaimed Vampirates series-begun with Demons of the Ocean and Tides of Terror- continues full-sail in Blood Captain. Long since separated, the twins Connor and Grace struggle to earn their keep and avoid lashings aboard their respective pirate ships- Connor on the Diablo and Grace among the cursed crew of the Vampirate vessel. Both siblings wonder if they will ever be reunited.

Vampirates is a colorful extravaganza with a wildly eccentric cast and lashings of swashbuckling adventure, punctuated with horror and old-school romance. Conor and Grace are twins, recently orphaned after their widowed father’s death. Rather than being adopted by the town’s busy-bodies, they decide to set sail for new pastures in their father’s last single possession, his sailing boat. But a vicious storm sees their boat capsize and the twins are separated. Two mysterious ships sail to their rescue – each picking up one twin before disappearing into the mist. Conor wakes to find himself on a pirate ship and is soon being trained up with a cutlass. Meanwhile Grace finds herself locked in a darkened room, as the vampirates wait for night to fall and their feasting to begin…Determined to find each other, yet intrigued by their new shipmates, the twins are about to embark on the biggest adventure of their life.

Internationally best-selling author Justin Somper’s exciting Vampirates novels are eagerly anticipated for their swashbuckling adventure. The fifth exciting installment of the series finds the rebel Sidorio- the self-proclaimed King of the Vampirates- eager to expand his empire. But as the Pirate Federation and the Nocturnal Vampirates fight back, destroying rebel ships on sight, Grace and Connor Tempest find themselves drawn into the epicenter of this dangerous conflict.

International bestselling author Justin Somper created a runaway hit with his genre-bending Vampirates series. In this thrilling conclusion, Connor and Grace Tempest make ready for the final battle between the Pirate Federation and the renegade Vampirates. Allies old and new have joined their cause, but even Connor’s considerable fighting prowess and Grace’s powerful healing abilities will be pushed to the brink when an army of the undead joins the fight.

Justin Somper, internationally acclaimed author of young adult fiction, returns with the exciting sequel to the thrilling Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean. This swashbuckling adventure takes the bold seafaring twins,Connor and Grace, across the treacherous oceans where the notorious vampirates prowl. “Totally original . I wish I’d had this idea!”-Anthony Horowitz, best-selling author