A seafaring youth from a dysfunctional 19th century Irish family travels to the new world as a crew member on the merchant ship Dynasty. Sean Dalton becomes a Hudson Bay Company adventurer developing the first Great Lakes shipping empire.
DISASTER LEGACY
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Disaster Legacy follows the struggles and challenges of the journey leading Sean McChesney-Dalton from Ireland to North America in the 19th century. The adventurer survives seafaring pirate attacks, the murder of his father and attempted killing of his /mother together with dysfunctional family turmoil before narrowly escaping a hanging for alleged terrorism before escaping to America.
He carves out a career at York Factory after arriving in Canada aboard the merchant ship Disaster eventually marrying a First Nation woman and accepting an assignment to successfully develop Canada's Hudson Bay Company prairie trading posts. Intrigue and suspense follow as the seaman turned business executive agrees to organize the first North American Great Lakes shipping company for Hudson Bay Company executives. He faces the turmoil of the death of his native wife and assuming sole care of his infant daughter.
Sean becomes instrumental in helping defuse a Métis insurrection threat when American ships carrying his family owned industrial firm merchandise are discovered smuggling arms to rebel leaders. He deals with unscrupulous partnerships, death threats and family turmoil before returning to Ireland with his infant daughter and learning of another child born out of wedlock to a former lover that helped him escape from Ireland. Personal and business challenges continue after discovering the mother of his son and his own mother missing form Ireland for 25 years, are struggling to retain family ownership of the crumbling McChesney industrial empire.
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BECOMING SOLE HEIR
The sea along the Irish coast near Wexford is often picturesque with a gentle swell kissing the shore. At times like this, it was wild and angry frothing like a mad animal. Today the waves pounded the shore, sending spray almost half way up the rocky embankment reflecting the storm lashing shipping in the Irish Sea. Only a single fishing boat was on the horizon, rising and falling in the giant swells. Struggling to stay afloat Kathleen tried to make the horse swim against the waves. Clinging to the saddle until finally losing her grip, she rose to the top of each wave before disappearing into the next trough until the sea carried her out of sight.
Sitting motionless astride his horse, the man watched the woman disappear.
"Liam will be pleased," he spoke aloud.
Dressed in black with a scarf covering most of his face a single gunshot rang out as he turned his mount from the edge of the cliff. Lurching forward violently after the bullet struck him in the chest, he fell to the ground. Landing on his back, his eyes stared towards the sky in the classic pose of the dead.
Carrying a new American Winchester rifle another man dressed in a tailored, dark brown English riding suit rode up to the fallen man and dismounted. Slightly built with a thin face, small brown moustache, thinning sandy colored hair, and a straight mirthless line for a mouth, he walked over to the body.
Making certain his shiny riding boots were not soiled, he pushed it over the edge. Smiling as the body slid down embankment into the sea Liam McChesney felt a thrill of excitement. Arranging for the death of his sister after disposing of her husband meant becoming sole heir to the McChesney fortune. Negotiating a partnership in the newly organized arms smuggling cartel with Lord Argyle would soon be possible.
With Kathleen in the sea floating a long way from shore, Liam rode to the office of the local constabulary to report the detail of his sister’s drowning. Taking credit for killing the New Republican assassin responsible for her death, he found the officer in charge sympathetic, assuring him the search to recover her body would begin as soon as weather allowed.
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