The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, on Her Way to Botany Bay is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer published in 2010.

In the previous book, Rapture of the Deep, Jacky is forced by British Naval Intelligence to recover Spanish gold from the bottom of the Caribbean Sea.

They attend a religious revival at the farm, where Jacky sees her old associates Mr. Fennel and Mr. Bean, who are stage performers.

To make matters worse, the Lorelei Lee is confiscated and used to transport Jacky and 250 other female convicts, to become "breeders" to populate Australia.

Jacky had decked out the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic Ocean, so it was equipped for the voyage to Australia.

The Newgaters Crew, consisting of twelve girls, including Jacky, plan on doing the ship's laundry in an attempt to make money.

She also sees Gully MacFarland, her old partner in Boston, who Jacky put upon a British Navy ship after he got drunk and hit her.

Jacky, being the former owner of the Lorelei Lee, knows where the extra mattresses are, and with some help from the carpenter, they make bunk beds for the crew.

During these parties Major George Johnston, an officer, has been attending with a girl from Jacky's crew, Esther Abrahams.

Jacky on the other hand, uses their marriage to tease Higgins to no end by asking him to carry her across the threshold of their cabin and calling him "Dear Husband John" and such.

Riding the elephant, Jacky and Mairead go on to be part of a procession through town, where at the end, in the Governor's box, sit Captain Laughton and Higgins.

While on the elephant, Jacky stands in front of Mairead and puts her arms out, imitating the Goddess Kali.

The Captain tells them they are inflicting punishment to rioting prisoners, and Jacky and Mairead, seeing that their Jaimy and Ian are being hurt, manage to jump on board the Cerberus to save/comfort their men.

Under deck, Jacky and Higgins make themselves a makeshift room for the two and discuss matters with Ravi and their monkey Josephine, who they picked up from India.

The ship turns out to be a pirate's Chinese junk and attacks them by throwing phosphorus rockets at them from a long distance.

The woman, whose name is Cheng Shih, is obviously the boss, asks the monk to record Jacky's entire life.

The monk and Jacky talk and eventually she learns that Cheng Shih is the most dreaded pirate in these lands and commanded hundred of ships.

The monk, Brother Arcangelo Rossetti, tells Jacky that Cheng Shih is intrigued by her and wants to keep her.

Later in Cheng Shih's cabin, Jacky learns of how she always keeps a Buddha statue near her to remind herself of a debt unpaid.

It turns out while raiding the monastery there, Cheng Shih also tried to take their giant golden Buddha statue, but it sank under water.

He tells her that he will pose as the now-dead captain of the ship, collect the money for delivering the prisoners and sail back with her.

En route to Australia, Jacky and Jaimy are mostly on separate ships, and she makes no move to invite him over, telling him she is busy.

She had known that would be on Jaimy's mind, as Mairead and Ian had been "busy making another Irish baby" and McBride had given him a hard time about her easy ways.

At Australia, Jaimy and Higgins act as the captains of the two ships, collect the money, leave the prisoners, and sail a good distance away to talk matters through.

The Captain climbs aboard the Lorelei and Jacky sees that it is Joseph Jared, one of the men she had a relationship with on the Wolverine, as since then.

Together, they agree to let the Dart sail with them to England, where the Cerberus and it will stay, and where Jaimy will go with his lawyer to plead his innocence in court.

Jacky, along with the Irish crew and Higgins, would go to Boston, and continue with Faber Shipping, as all chances of her acquittal is lost.

Lisa Ann Verge, writing for the Historical Novel Society, called The Wake of the Lorelei Lee "a winner" and highlighted Meyer's strength in "juggling seven books worth of beloved characters and adding a full contingent more".

[1] Booklist's Carolyn Phelan praised the novel's plotting, writing that "Meyer knows how to spin an exciting yarn, particularly on the high seas".

[3] School Library Journal called Kellgren's narration "brilliant", adding that it turns "this story into great theater.