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Pirate’s Revenge
I enjoy pirate-based stories so much I even write my own series, so I am somewhat hesitant to meet characters created…
Tainted Prize
Tainted Prize is the second in the Under Admiralty Orders series about Oliver Quintrell, a naval captain serving at the…
A Love of Adventure
In this 19th-century romance, Druett writes with a keen sense of irony. For example, in the midst of a storm…
At Drake’s Command
This first installment in Hill’s adventures of young Peregrine James, set during the height of Elizabethan ‘sea-dog’ days, has a…
Miss Whittier Makes a List
In 1801, young American Quaker Hannah Whittier is an innocent victim of the Napoleonic wars when she is shipwrecked after…
All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship
All Standing tells of one of the greatest human rights atrocities of all time, the Irish potato famine of the…
A Call to Arms
The fourth in a series, this historical novel details the lives of Richard Cutler and his family as the young…
A Sea of Troubles
It is 1794, and Britannia is doing its best to rule the waves to the detriment of Revolutionary France. John…
Smuggler’s Kiss
Set in the Georgian period, the story centres around wealthy 15-year-old Isabelle, who finds her circumstances dramatically changed and, in…
Nelson: The Sword of Albion
“Then something surprising happened,” writes this beguiling author. It certainly does, not only on that occasion but throughout. Falling in…
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