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In this historical thriller set in 1862, delicious gay romance counterpoints maritime adventure. Real locations and events form the background to a very human drama which touched tens of thousands of lives.
Mel Keegan is back at sea in the days of tall ships and high adventure ...
It is an age when sail and steam are technologies in collision, and the thousand-year tradition of the tall ships is coming to an end. Men like Bill Ryan and Jim Hale are caught in the jaws of change, in a world where survival depends on raw courage, strength and a willingness to take terrible risks
1862, on the east coast of England: the railway is the death knell of the coastal shipping trade, and many small lines like Eastcoast Packet won’t survive. Jim Hale is about to inherit Eastcoast and the s | |  | | The Swordsman
Jack Leigh is a soldier of fortune, far from home. He's a brilliant 'sword for hire,' but in the dangerous Riverlands dukedom of Rhondia he gets much more than he bargained for. Historical fantasy on a vast canvas from a long-time favorite author.
Treachery, treason and dark magic form swirling, powerful undercurrents in Rhondia. Along the canals and in the menacing heart of Nimmenwald Forest lurk unimaginable threats — the bo'zhe, the Lappai ... barbarians from the wasteland of Saihabara and the dark, unknowable forces of Nimmenwald Deep itself.
At the crux of the vortex of magic and treachery is the heir to Rhondia, Michael Sebastian — 'Seb'— d'Astaghir. Haughty, moody ... haunted by the goblins of memory, Seb is in terrible jeopardy. It's only luck when his old friend, old lover, Luc Redmayne happens upon |
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