Nautical
Victorian Tales: The Sea Monsters
1838. History is about to be made. Two steam ships will cross the Atlantic for the very first time. One…
Surgeon’s Mate
Surgeon’s Mate (Book Two of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series) is a delightful fictional first person narration inspired by…
Brandy Row
Violet Allen is the daughter of a smuggler and the childhood sweetheart of Matthew Stone, a fisherman. Destiny seems to…
The Loss of the Marion
The Marion is one of many Newfoundland fishing schooners bound for the Grand Banks in 1915; each bears its skipper’s…
Blockade Runner
Shipping clerk Tom Wells impresses his employers in 1861 London so much that they entrust him with the administration of…
Privateer’s Apprentice
Jameson Cooper’s dream of becoming a printer like his father is dashed when his parents die of the pox and…
Honorable Lies
American naval intelligence officer Peter Wake embarks on a secret mission to Cuba to rescue two members of his network…
Hostile Shores: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure
Captain Alan Lewrie leaves his post in the Bahamas for London with word of the victory at Trafalgar and the…
Betrayal
Editors' choice
‘The repossession of Buenos Aires has been stained with such deliberate acts of treachery and perfidy as are not to…
The Patriot’s Fate
It is 1798, and Ireland is rising up against her British masters. Two friends, Crowley and King — the one…
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