Philippa Flynn's Year of Panic and Piracy

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grandmother
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history professor
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truth or dare
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  • ISBN 9781662539336
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
  • Publisher: Amazon Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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An introverted history professor and a former romance cover model collaborate on a life-changing endeavor in a witty and swoonworthy novel about new beginnings in unexpected waters.

When a sinkhole nearly swallows her whole, burned-out history professor Philippa Flynn takes it as a wake-up call. Leaving her carefully planned but unfulfilling life behind, she moves into an old seaside house she inherited from her grandmother, a bestselling author of swashbuckling romances. Philippa expects the clutter, disrepair, proximity to the family she deliberately moved away from, and reclusive writer she’ll be sharing the house with. She doesn’t expect that writer to also be the cover model who personified Iris Flynn’s bare-chested, cavalier-booted pirate king.

While navigating their awkward cohabitation and searching for creative inspiration, the pair discovers the outlines for six more novels they could work on together. But Philippa’s used to facts, Dylan has writer’s block, and neither can craft a love scene while real sparks are flying.

To write the story on the page, Philippa will have to embrace the one she’s living, even if it means swapping tenure for treasure maps and plans for pirate kings.

Jacqueline Firkins is the author of six novels, including The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch, How Not to Fall in Love, and Marlowe Banks, Redesigned. A costume designer and lover of beautiful things, Jacqueline is on the full-time faculty in the Department of Theatre & Film at the University of British Columbia where she teaches character design, world-building, and period costume construction courses. When not obsessing about where to put the buttons or the commas, she can be found running by the ocean, eating excessive amounts of gluten, listening to earnest love songs, and pretending her dog understands every word she says. For more information, visit www.jacquelinefirkins.com.

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