Thomas Guay: Chesapeake Bound, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Chesapeake Bound
- An Annapolis Novel
- Publisher:
- Globe Pequot Publishing, 04/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781493088485
- Item number:
- 11913286
- Volume:
- 268 Pages
- Weight:
- 410 g
- Format:
- 228 x 151 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 1.4.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
A story of desperate immigrants looking for adventure, advancement, love, and, most of all, a sense of belonging in the colonies
London, 1763: Gifted musician and medical apprentice Michael Shea is living rough after being blackballed from working as a surgeon's assistant. Not only does Michael lose his gig playing fiddle in a tavern, he also is framed for the murder of a tavern patron visiting from colonial Virginia. Worse, Michael realizes his ladylove wasn't interested in true love. He was just a divertissement .
Heartbroken and out of options, Michael and his friend, Danny, escape the turmoil by shipping out on the misnamed brig The Delight as lowly indentured servants. On board are forty-eight other desperate souls---everyday people risking their lives to immigrate to the wilds of America, hoping for a better life in the colonies where they can break free of a rigid class system, prejudice, and poverty. Michael's medical skills prove critical as the passengers endure the ravages of the long trans-Atlantic journey from London to Annapolis: killer storms, accidents, sickness, and Barbary raiders. While attending to the sick, Michael realizes that he has not yet escaped the murder for which he was framed---and that the real killer will do anything to keep his identity a secret.