Naval Drama

Life has dealt him an unfair hand, leaving him with few options. Will a chance encounter with a caring American colonial family provide a poor English boy with a stable home, or will the boy be lost in events that are spiraling out of control? Peter Smith, a boy of humble beginnings, is a testament to the human spirit. Despite his impoverished upbringing, abduction, and mistreatment, he refuses to be defined by his circumstances. Born into poverty and hopelessness on the streets of Portsmouth, England, Peter is forced into a life of crime just to survive. His resilience is tested when he is...

"You could get addicted to this series. Easily." --The New York Times Book Review 1788--Bahamas Squadron . . . A fighter, rogue, and ladies man, Alan Lewrie has done the unthinkable and gotten himself hitched--to a woman and a ship! The woman is the lovely Caroline Chiswick. The ship is the gun...

They called themselves the Bombay Buccaneers - and under that flamboyant name they blazed a trail of daring and adventure from the Gulf of Oman to the waters of Macao. For courage, loyalty, and renown few of the Buccaneers could match their Captain, Percival Merewether, a brilliant seaman who was already the hero of a score of fabled sea-faring campaigns. Newly in command of the 36-gun frigate Pitt, Merewether is about to set sail again.

Three men. One shattered mind. A war that will test them all. December 7, 1941. As Pearl Harbor burns, twenty-four-year-old medical prodigy Dr. Jack Mercer makes a decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life. Fleeing the weight of family expectations and driven by an impulse he barely understands, he enlists in the U.S. Navy. He expects order. Discipline. Predictability. Instead, he is assigned to the USS Vigilant, an aircraft carrier thrown into the desperate opening months of the Pacific War—a place where death arrives without warning, sleep is a luxury, and every mistake ...

Before submarines and moon voyages, Jules Verne mastered something simpler: the art of a perfectly told story. This collection presents three lesser-known Verne works that showcase his range beyond science fiction—taut historical dramas where adventure serves character rather than spectacle. A Mexican Drama plunges readers into Mexico's turbulent struggles, where personal loyalties collide with political upheaval. Love, betrayal, and courage play out against a nation in conflict. The Blockade Runners follows a daring maritime operation during the American Civil War. Verne's technical ...

At 0610 on 3 November 1983, a rusting submarine breaks the surface off Kannonzaki with her flag up, her decks manned, and nine knots on the log — inside the gun arcs of two navies. She is not sneaking. She is arriving. The last night runs on small things. Two letters written at a wardroom table, one in English and one in Korean, for the case where only paper survives. A cassette played once with everyone pretending not to listen. A ballast calculation for a single rise at dawn, worked by hands that have not been steady in a week. Ashore it runs on smaller things still. A tasking order ...

Bestselling author Carla Kelly’s Regency seriesThe Channel Fleet continues, and the life-and-death stakes couldn’t be higher for this dashing naval hero! Return to her respectable life… Or take a scandalous path to marriage? As her snobbish aunt’s companion, penniless vicar’s daughter...

Circular Run Book Three of The War Patrols of Hal Garrett Ten days after sinking a Japanese signals ship in the Luzon Strait, Commander Hal Garrett is still at sea when the debrief catches up to him by radio. The interdiction that sank her was authorized under paragraph four of a classified annex. Garrett's copy of that annex ends at paragraph two. Back at Pearl Harbor, what should be routine paperwork becomes a closed-room reckoning at 37 Makalapa Drive — a battle-damage inventory, a court-martial referral for a torpedo inspector who signed off on lots that never should have shipped, and...

Can an elderly man, lying alone on his deathbed, find the courage to mend his broken relationships with his children before it’s too late? Admiral Arthur Barclay, a man who has dedicated his life to the Royal Navy, has a story that will tug at your heartstrings. His frequent absences, a result of his service, left his wife to raise their four children alone. He reconciles his lack of time spent with his family to the duties he must attend to. It was a choice he made, knowing the regrets he would face. His emotional journey and the impact of his decisions on his family will resonate with ...

An ideal book for fans of Ian W. Toll, Gordon W. Prange, and James D. Hornfischer. On the evening of 11 February 1942 the German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau left their Atlantic port. Twenty-four hours later they had made their way through the supposedly impenetrable English Channel...

She didn’t just survive the pirate king. She became one. Canton, 1801. In the humid, decaying splendor of the Pearl River, Shih Yang is a prized commodity. A high-ranking courtesan on the floating "flower boats," she trades in more than just flesh. She trades in secrets—cultivating a mental ledger of every corrupt official and smuggler who enters her silk-draped cage. But Shih Yang isn't waiting for a savior. She's waiting for an empire. When the notorious pirate warlord Zheng Yi raids the harbor, it isn't a stroke of misfortune. Shih Yang orchestrated the attack herself to escape a ...

In July 1945, the USS Indianapolis completed a top‑secret mission that helped end World War II. Days later, the cruiser was struck by enemy torpedoes and vanished beneath the Pacific in just twelve minutes. Hundreds of sailors were thrown into open water with no lifeboats, no food, and no way to call for help. For five days, the survivors faced relentless sun, dehydration, exhaustion, and the terror of circling sharks. Some held onto hope. Others clung to each other. All were changed forever. This novella brings their story to life with emotional depth and vivid detail, honoring the ...

Fallon – A crime novel. The story begins with the murder of a young couple on vacation in Fallon, Nevada. The cousin of one of the victims, Matt Barton, who has been working as a detective since retiring from the Military Police, rushes to the scene. A series of events unfold during his investigation that unlocks a fifty-year old mystery. His friendship with a local Sheriff deputy proves invaluable in discovering the truth.

Vietnam, 1969. A Navy petty officer disobeys his commanding officer in the dark on a canal in Kien Hoa Province. He removes him from the helm. He brings the boat home. The charge is mutiny. The truth is classified. When Lieutenant Commander David Voss arrives in-country with eight days to prepare and five days' worth of documents, he knows the government has built its case around a question it can control: did the order exist, and was it disobeyed? He knows the answer to both is yes. What the charge sheet doesn't say — what it has been very carefully organized not to say — is where the ...

1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats. Prime Minister Winston Churchill is lying to the country about the number of British ships sunk. He is lying about the...

For fans of Janet Beard’s The Atomic City Girls and Marie Benedict’s The Only Woman in the Room, this powerful, romantic novel tells the story of a woman determined to aid her country, finding love in the midst of tragedy along the way during World War II. When Lottie Palmer runs away the...

Dreading how to explain the phenomenal event to high command, the USS Atticus is caught in a quandary: fully disclose the unbelievable truth? or to safely stick to little-known facts? Time for investigation is short as war flares just north of Guam at Iwo Jima. Called into a different kind of combat action, the destroyer joins a small squadron in a face-off against attacking planes and massive ships. Can Atticus stay afloat? If so, will the ship and crew be silenced in secrecy? Join Signalman Bill Johnson as he recounts the next exciting chapter!

A new captain. A covert mission. And a choice that could start a war. Young Coast Guard Lieutenant Haley Reardon hasn’t even found her sea legs on her first patrol command when the USCGC Kauai is tasked with a high‑risk covert assignment. Under cover of routine operations, Haley and her crew must insert a Defense Intelligence Agency team onto a small Caribbean island controlled by a front company of the Chinese government and guarded by a superior military force. The mission is simple on paper: get the team in, then get them out with a transnational crime boss in custody. But when the ...