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...

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The Admirals' Game

by David Donachie

1794. Lieutenant John Pearce, recently returned from the Atlantic, is caught between the constant feuding of two senior admirals. One puts him in a position of maximum danger while another asks him to undertake...

A Flag of Truce

by David Donachie

Revolution. Bloodshed. Glory

1793. Returning triumphant from Corsica, Lieutenant John Pearce receives a mixed welcome. But with the siege of Toulon escalating in violence and the French Revolutionary Army preparing...

Twenty Fathoms Down

by L. Ron Hubbard

As daring and defiant as Kirk Douglas journeying 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there’s no stopping diver Hawk Ridley as he takes the plunge into an ocean of untold riches and danger.  Fighting off ruthless...

Among the Mermaids: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

by T. Crofton Croker, William Butler Yeats & Varla Ventura

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection...

The Prodigal: A Novel

by Susan Keogh

pirates, Age of Sail, revenge, London, murder, abduction, prison A story of relentless pursuit, betrayal, and revenge: As a young boy Jack Mallory knows horror and desolation when James Logan and his pirates...

Captain Blackwell's Prize

by Eva Ulett

"A romantic adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men. Captain Blackwell's Prize is a story of honor, duty, social class and the bond of sexual love. A small audacious British frigate does battle...

Under Drake's Flag

by G.A. Henty

From the "Prince of Storytellers," an exciting account of life on the high seas as seen through the eyes of young Ned Hearne. The brave 16th-century teen sails with Francis Drake, experiences a harsh seafaring...