This book was published in 2012. According to Frers, Mary Read’s mother is an upper class woman whose son dies of a fever. Her husband also dies, and she dresses Mary as a boy to inherit money from him.
Jack Rackham (also called Rackham el Rojo) works as Charles Vane’s quartermaster on the ship Treasure. Charles gets caught and Jack gets a pardon from Governor Wooden Rogers (lol) in Providence, Rhode Island. There he befriends James Bonny and begins a romance with Ann.
After Mary’s husband dies, she travels to America with one of her tavern clients, a Dutch merchant, in exchange for “ciertos favores privados.” On the way they are attacked by Jack and Ann. Mary puts on men’s clothes to blend in with the other captives.
When the pirates are arrested, they were having a party with local women and musicians, in which Ann and Mary did not participate. They are attacked by English soldiers. Frers writes that Ann dies pregnant at age 37 and that this is recorded; presumably he has confused Ann with Mary, whose fate he says is speculated but unknown, but even so, there is no actual source given.
Depictions of John Rackam, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read 