Chronicles of the Twenty-One Butterflies Series

Casey is only fifteen years old when her stepfather tries to marry her to a perverted and brutal man twice her age. However, minutes before the wedding, Casey flees into the jungle where she is rescued from her pursuers by a mysterious woman who sets the terrified young girl on a path to becoming a pirate - a path full of adventure, danger, personal struggles, and self-discovery. Struggling with her own fears and desires, Casey hovers between being an innocent teenage girl confused about love and her own sexuality, and becoming a ruthless pirate seeking revenge on those who have taken all she cherished away from her.  Casey strives to win the trust of the Twenty-One Butterflies, a group of female pirates living on Butterfly Islands, a mystic place filled with dazzling butterflies by day and swarms of moths carrying terrifying parasites by night. A disastrous trip by the Twenty-One Butterflies to a floating city in the sky known as God's Mercy, changes everything. While trapped once more in the hands of her former husband-to-be, Casey discovers that there is a traitor in their midst. From that point on, it is a race to save her new friends' lives and to escape from the man who wishes to make the young girl his wife and a slave to his twisted desires. 

Maelstrom is book #2 of Chris Seabranch's epic Twenty-One Butterflies chronicles, the saga of a female pirate group.  The Twenty-One Butterflies are thrown into a fast-paced rescue of two-thousand street children that the tyrannical Governor Johnson has enslaved to work in the dark and gruesome Monolith mines. Meanwhile a powerful artifact is discovered at the bottom of a mysterious vortex in the middle of the sea, and both pirates and the Governor will do anything in their power to get their hands on it. In the middle of dangers and action, young Buckeye struggles with her own sexuality as her relationship to her friend Dawn becomes more intimate. At the same time, she finds herself romantically attracted to Blake, the son of the most feared pirate in Gallows Sound.   

This is the third book in the Chronicles of the Twenty-One Butterflies series. Read 'Butterfly Islands' and 'Maelstrom' first. A large army of wailers is suddenly gathering on Butterfly Islands and the Twenty-One Butterflies have to flee for their lives. However, not all of them escape and the female pirates need to risk their own lives to save not only their friends, but the entire Gallows Sound too. At the same time, a young man returns from the dead, but he has brought something with him back. Something dark, not seen in hundreds of years, returns to Gallows Sound. Buckeye is rising within the ranks of the Twenty-One Butterflies and her relationship to her friends Dawn and Blake becomes more intimate. She fears that by choosing to be with one of them, she pushes the other away. Time, however, is not on the young pirate's side and in the most intimate moment, all hell breaks loose and she and the other Butterflies suddenly finds themselves at the mercy of the Five Sisters.

Buckeye travels west of Gallows Sound to search for a lost family member. However, during her travels, she finds out that she has most worrying heritage that links her to a person she despises. At the same time, one of her crewmembers is captured by a feared organization of slave traders and Buckeye is forced to not only save her friend but also an old enemy. If she fails, not only the Twenty-One Butterflies will suffer for it, but everyone else as well.  Ascension part 1 is the fourth book in the Chronicles of the Twenty-One Butterflies pirate fantasy series. If you have not read Butterflies Islands, Maelstrom, or Wailers, I suggest you start there to get the most out of Ascension part 1. 

The fifth book in the Chronicles of the Twenty-One Butterflies fantasy series. An attempt to save the women from the Library in the Forest suddenly becomes unimportant when an unfortunate death forces Buckeye to once more sail west to Midway in search of her heritage. Meanwhile, the Paguans seek revenge for the death of Lord Obrin and will stop at nothing to bring down the Twenty-One Butterflies, including starting a war. Everything quickly turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse with both Stevens and the Paguans being the cats and the Butterflies being twenty-one mice