EXCITING NAUTICAL FICTION WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING Winter 1747, Jon Swift arrives in New York seeking employment related to his hard earned master's qualifications. Finding nothing suitable, he signs on the schooner Providence as an able seaman. The Providence heads southward toward the warmer, sunnier climate of Jamaica with a load of trade goods, but never arrives in Kingston. Things go awry when the Providence is boarded. Knocked unconscious during that boarding, Swift wakens to find himself in dire circumstances. Keen to obtain some form of retribution from the...

The Frontier - Upper New York 1745

Imagine travelling to your friends house for a visit only to find him dead. His wife and children are missing. It takes five hours to reach the nearest settlement which doesnt have any authorities. What do you do?

Ezekiel Feare, a new struggling homesteader on the Mohawk River was in this situation. His actions dealing with his friends death result in some unforeseen consequences that jeopardize his livelihood and potentially his very existence.

The war between the British and French intensifies, resulting in the call-out of the local militia. Feare...

EXCITING NAUTICAL FICTION WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING. Assume you are the new owner of a cargo vessel with access to secret information. You need money to pay for the ship and crew. Your competition is well-entrenched with contracts covering most potential customers. There is little business. You could lose everything. Would you chance doing something risky? That is exactly the position of Captain Jon Swift of the schooner Providence. In desperation, Swift buys cargo and heads south to the Caribbean seeking contraband. He soon finds out that cash is king, and the lack of...