Sea Stories

An Ill Wind

by David Donachie

1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are homeward bound, determined to put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But first they must evacuate Toulon where the Republican Army and the threat of the...

The Wreck of the Titan

by Morgan Robertson

A novella of unrequited love, human arrogance, and deadly tragedy that predicted the legendary Titanic disaster…fourteen years before it happened.

In 1898, Morgan Robertson penned The Wreck of the Titan,...

By the Mast Divided

by David Donachie

London 1793: Young firebrand John Pearce is illegally press-ganged from the refuge of the Pelican tavern to a brutal life aboard HMS Brilliant, a frigate on its way to war. In his first few days Pearce discovers...

A Ship's Tale

by N. Jay Young

Walter Cronkite —A Ship's Taleby N. Jay Young is “an extraordinary tale from World War II of an extraordinary sailing vessel written by a courageous and extraordinary author.”

James P. Delgado, Host of...

A Battle Won

Adventures of Charles Hayden #2

by S. Thomas Russell

"[A] thrilling story of nautical warfare" (Kirkus Reviews) from the author of Under Enemy Colors.

Winter 1793. Master and Commander Charles Hayden is given orders to return to the ill-fated HMS Themis as the...

Island in the Sea of Time

Nantucket #1

by S. Stirling

It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late twentieth...

The Guardship

by James L. Nelson

Shortly after Thomas Marlowe's arrival in Williamsburg, Virginia, all in that newfound capital city are speaking his name. With the bounty from his years as a pirate--a life he intends to renounce and keep forever...

The Patriot's Fate

by Alaric Bond

Alaric Bond is up there with CS Forester and Patrick O'Brien for thrilling and utterly real naval stories In the Patriot's Fate he has combined historical fact with compelling fiction to produce another gripping...

Barbados Bound

by Linda Collison

Portsmouth, England,1760. Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Barbadian sugarcane planter, falls from her imagined place in the world when her absent father unexpectedly dies. Raised in a...

No Quarter: A Matty Graves Novel

by Broos Campbell

This first book in the series introduces Matty Graves, midshipman in the early years of the United States Navy. In 1799, the young U.S. Navy faces France in an undeclared Quasi-War for the Caribbean. Matty...

Fandango's Gold

by Robert Louis Louis Boudreau

Ex-navy test pilot, Jack Carlton operates his 90-foot charter schooner out of the English harbor, Antigua. With his trusty mate Cobb and beautiful cook Megan, Jack sails the Fandango through squalls and reef-strewn...

Audacity, Privateer Out of Portsmouth: Continuing the Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as Fa

by J. E. Fender

The second volume of the adventures of Geoffrey Frost

Fire on Dark Water

by Wendy Perriman

A debut historical novel about a female pirate's life on the high seas.

Born a despised gypsy and tricked into a life of brutal debauchery, Lola Blaise quickly learns the harsh ways of the world, and of the...

Under Enemy Colors

Adventures of Charles Hayden #1

by S. Thomas Russell

Born to an English father and a French mother, lieutenant Charles Saunders Hayden?s career is damned by his ?mixed? heritage. Assigned to the HMS Themis, an aging frigate under the command of a captain reviled...

The Blackbirder

by James L. Nelson

In a blind rage, King James, ex-slave and now Marlowe's comrade in arms, slaughters the crew of a slave ship and makes himself the most wanted man in Virginia. The governor gives Marlowe a choice: Hunt James...

Thieves of Mercy

by James L. Nelson

Having survived the bloody Battle of New Orleans and the loss of their ironclad Yazoo River, captain Samuel Bowater, engineer Hieronymus Taylor, and the survivors of their crew are given new orders -- take command...

The Unicorn Tree

by Cynthia Collins

While looking for a class project, Lisa Duncan finds a diary in a sea caption's home that his wife had written years ago. The diary tells about how she waits for her husband to return home, standing under the...

Take, Burn or Destroy

Adventures of Charles Hayden #4

by S.Thomas Russell

Master and Commander Charles Hayden returns in the riveting new seafaring adventure from the bestselling author.

1794, the height of the French Revolution—Charles Hayden sets off aboard the ill-fated HMS Themis...

An Awkward Commission

by David Donachie

July, 1793. Since being press-ganged into service in King George’s Navy, John Pearce has endured a whirlwind few months, which have seen him survive wild storms and bitter battles with the enemy. He is finally...

Symzonia

by Adam Seaborn

Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery is a breath taking adventure story that follows Captain Seaborn's expedition to the North Pole and his discovery of the entrance to the hollow earth. But first Seaborn must survive...