Scarred

Jo-Ann is a disillusioned young woman who decides the best thing for her is to leave. Leave school, where she has been for seven years since the tragic death of her parents, which left her an orphan at the age of ten. Leave England and a society that forgot about her. Leave everything she knows, except her best friend, who insists on going with her – plunging them both into the dangers found on the high seas, with pirate battles, slave markets, and the hardships found in Colonial America.

Quentin Alexander, Earl of Thurgarton, learns he is Jo-Ann’s guardian through a message from the headmistress of the school she attended. With permission from the Crown, he determines to bring Jo-Ann and her companion back to England.

Both Jo-Ann and Quentin are determined on seeing their objectives met: she to stay in the colonies, and he to take her back. Who will win the battle of wills, and at what cost?

Manifest Destiny

Ship designer and captain, Gareth Taliesin must find a wife and have a family within seven years or lose the partnership and shipping business in Delaware Colony.

Time has almost run out when Ainsley MacPherson of Aberdeen, Scotland, finds herself bound in marriage as the ill-fated result of a game of cards between her father and Gareth Taliesin.

Gareth and Ainsley are plunged into the dangers waiting for them from pirates on the high seas, and in Delaware Colony women are missing. Would Ainsley be among them?

Gareth’s good friend, Captain David Alexander and his family help solve the mystery behind the missing women and the pirate attacks, but at what cost to Gareth and Ainsley and the villagers of Lewes, Delaware?

Stowaway

Only known as Cassie until her birth documents show otherwise, Cassie Thorngate sets out to find her father and learn why she was left as an orphan in a parsonage for eighteen years. Stowing away on her father’s ship against his wishes and that of the grandmother and aunt she never knew, she worked alongside the crew as the cabin boy and ship’s steward until two passengers saw through her disguise as a young lad and molested her.

Robert (Rob) MacDonald is the first mate aboard the Sea Hawk when his captain learned he had a daughter and found he was more than interested in her. When Cassie was molested, he sought her father’s permission to marry.

Cassie’s battle with her fears and people in general leave her traumatized and facing an uncertain future. When battles with pirates and the French due to the Seven Year’s War threaten to overwhelm her, Cassie must learn to trust someone. Can Cassie accept the love offered to her and come to terms with what happened?

Freedom’s Cry

Curiosity tore ten-year-old Judith MacDonald from the arms of her family into an adventure that would take her to the far reaches of the world, and span ten years of her life.

Judith, under the protection of Benny Harrison and Jabari, who rescue her from the middle of a pirate fight in Amsterdam, finds herself captured by Barbary pirates and the property of Sultan Ismail Hassan.

Armed with a faith in God, instilled in her by her parents and grandparents, she faces the ultimate test of her faith, as she finds herself forced to renounce her faith and take up the teachings of Islam, which she refuses to do.

Judith’s journey home takes her from Amsterdam to the South China Sea. Everywhere she sets foot, a battle for survival takes place as she is hunted down by the Hassan family from which Benny and Jabari rescue her many times to find her one last time in the hands of Sultan Mehmed Hassan, son of Sultan Ismail Hassan, as he keeps her out of reach of her family.

Looming on the horizon is war with Great Britain, as the British American Colonies face a war for their independence. Not only does Judith’s family need to find her and bring her home, they need to do so before war breaks out and they find themselves in even greater danger from British ships.

Freedom’s Cry is a story of freedom, not only for Judith MacDonald, but for the British American Colonies who hope to gain their independence from Great Britain.