From Scotland during the Highland Clearances John Lennie emigrated as a boy with his parents to Canada. At York Factory on the shores of the Hudson's Bay he joined the fur traders who headed West up the River Highway. Sixteen-year-old Adolph Perrault, meanwhile, stowed away aboard ship from France to follow a missionary to Canada and there to pursue an adventure
John Lennie and Adolph Perrault, real people in the waning years of the Fur Trade became caught up in the adventures that took them West to Alberta where they met and became involved with Albert Lacombe and Louis Riel as well as the Metis women who would open the eyes of these voyagers and their hearts.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself.