1803; just three years after his life was devastated by the loss of his fiancee, British Navy Lieutenant Neville Burton has returned to greater exploits in Jamaica. His new assignment as "Master and Commander" of the captured topsail schooner HMS Superieure had been rough so far. The ship's company, drawn from the dregs of the fleet, were only just now pulling together. A mutiny early on had sent the worst of them off to try their hand at being pirates of the Caribbean. Commanding a Royal Navy ship in the Napoleonic War is not Burton's only source of peril, however. His spymaster mentor has...

In this fifth book of the 'Worlds Apart' Series, British Navy Captain Neville Burton's life takes a strange twist. It was 1806, and Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions of conquering the known world were well under way; he'd stopped the Russians and destroyed the Austrian Empire. He did not expect help from a lone man who was seeking to bring him an important hostage. At sea, Britain's 'Atlantic Campaign' was unfolding to stop Napoleon's attempts at conquering the oceans. Their wide-spread nets didn't catch all enemy ships however, so the French Fleets under Admiral Linois in the Pacific and...