Never underestimate the power of love. Charity Rakham learns about womanhood the hard way when her father and fiance' are murdered by the dread pirate Blackbeard. She becomes a chambermaid to a woman of means who is murdered and she is framed for it. Now a fugitive, she rescues a hostage of the king of thieves; a hostage who offers her love and the dragon's blood. With his help she becomes the captain of the most fearsome pirate ship on the Caribbean Sea. The Black Witch is Book 6 in the Children of The Dragon series, a chronicle of the Xosan, living vampires from the planet Antellus, who were once human but who were transformed by a dragon's blood.