What happens when the impetuous privateer, Toby Heath, is betrayed by his free-spirited companion, Anne Cormac? How does he fare against the sword of the Spaniard Pereyra? And does he succumb to the ambitious headmistress Carol Spencer? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this action-packed 18th Century yarn.
Francis Farrington is hunted by Toby Heath after the young man discovers his family murdered by the notorious pirate. Filled with revenge, Toby is forced into an early maturity to find and kill the despoiler of his happiness. In this tale of misdeeds and adventure, magic and myth, hardship and love, cannon balls and musket shot, Toby chases the devil, leaving a bloody trail across oceans and seas.
By the 18th Century, England had a lucrative sugar, rum and cotton trade out of Jamaica and the planters feared that the steady flow of products would be disrupted by the escaped slaves that had banded together to avenge their treatment by the white man. To prevent this, King George sent an army to contain the dissenters, known as Maroons. This is a story about the men and women, black and white, who were embroiled in that conflict. How they lived, loved, survived and died. This is a story about the First Maroon War.
From the hazy peaks of Jamaica's Blue Mountains and across hectares of sugar cane fields; from the scattered islands of the Caribbean to the bustling ports of the North American Colonies, this story chronicles the lives of the members of the Thornby Family as they pursue their separate ambitions.
In a tale about a vengeful pirate-hunter's encounters with two notorious buccaneers you can expect a red-hot high-sea adventure filled with roaring cannons and ringing steel. But as the hot-tempered privateer, Toby Heath, pursues his hot-headed quarry from the Florida Keys to the coast of West Africa to the Rock of Gibraltar, he meets an old hot-blooded acquaintance and when they discover there may be more than friendship between them, the story takes an unexpected turn.
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