Fiction - Sea Stories

The sea roils. The siren calls. The kraken awakens. Will you join the voyage into the unknown?In the murky depths lurk the strangest, most frightening creatures, things that thrive in the dangerous waters of the night. From wandering ghost ships to murderous mermaids to...

The 14th volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring naval hero Thomas Kydd. As the captain of the 32-gun frigate L'Aurore, Kydd is claimed by the Leeward Islands station, exchanging the harsh situation in South America for the warmth and delights of...

In the 15th volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring naval hero Thomas Kydd, an Admiralty summons to England cuts short Kydd's service in the Caribbean. While the crew of L'Aurore look forward to liberty and prize money, a shadow hangs over...

In the 17th volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series, it is 1807 and Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's famous sea action aboard Tyger has snatched his reputation from ignominy. He is the hero of the hour. But although the British Navy remains imperious,...

Captain Alan Lewrie and his small squadron defeat four French frigates off northern Spain, winning honor, glory, and renown. So, why is such a successful captain suddenly without a ship, or another active commission? Why do rumors swirl that jealous foes' powerful patrons are...

January 1801, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, known as St. Alan the Liberator for freeing (stealing!) a dozen black slaves on Jamaica to man his frigate years before, is at last being brought to trial for it, with his life on the line. At...

December 1801. The Peace of Amiens end the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte's France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. First, he's been in the Navy since 1780 (most unwillingly, most of the time!) and at sea for the...

For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, who despises the French worse than the Devil hates Holy Water, it's hellish-hard to gain a reputation for saving them, not once but twice, when the French refugees from Haiti surrender to England rather than...

Pity poor Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy! He's been wind-muzzled for weeks in Portsmouth, snugly tucked into a warm shore bed with lovely, and loving, Lydia Stangbourne, a Viscount's daughter, and beginning to enjoy indulging his idle streak, when Admiralty tears Lewrie away and...

Three mismatched troop transports, lots of twenty-nine-foot barges, and an under-strength regiment of foot--a waste of Royal Navy money, a doomed experiment, or a new way to bedevil Napoleon's army in Italy? Either way, it's Capt. Sir Alan Lewrie's idea, and it seems to...

Afloat and Ashore is a nautical fiction novel by James Fenimore Cooper first published in 1844. Set in 1796-1804, the novel follows the maritime adventures of Miles Wallingford Jr., the son of wealthy New York landowners who chooses to go to sea after the...

The Crimean War rages on. Determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress and fluent in Russian? Hazard bravely...

The Crimean War is at its peak as the winter of 1854 sets in, and Commander Phillip Hazard of the 31-gun, steam-screw frigate Trojan is sent to bring troop reinforcements from Constantinople to Eupatoria. On the way, he must handle an overbearing young nobleman...

The news of a war raging in China and a sepoy mutiny in India threatening thousands of British lives in the Bengal Presidency is alarming to Commander Phillip Hazard, for two of his sisters are in India. He boards the HMS Shannon, bound for...

October 1854: Admidst brutal cannonade and flashing sabers, the Plain of Balaclava thundered to two of the most incredible military maneuvers of all time--the charge of the Heavy and Light Brigades.Author: V. a. StuartISBN-10: 1590130405ISBN-13: 9781590130407Publisher: McBooks PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2003Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h...

SOMETIMES LOVE TRANSCENDS TIME.... Holland Cohen has a love-hate relationship with her job. It's a dream profession, traveling the world to value, list and sell items the rich no longer want. She's seen the best and worst of their private lives, but she wonders...

In 2083, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has successfully consumed most of the world's oceans, decimating the aquatic populations on a massive scale. After years of inattention from the world's governments, scientists from the International Aquatic Preservation Foundation make a grim discovery. Within five...

The death of a gangster draws super-spy Paul Chavasse into a breathtaking adventure on the high seas - an unforgettable tale from one of the true masters of modern thriller writing, the bestselling author of Midnight Runner and The Keys of Hell. Caught in...

Since his youth, José Albañez has wanted only one thing - to follow his father into the joiner's trade. His uncle Domingo, however, draws him away from his comfortable life in Havana into his Caribbean web of trade and smuggling. After adventures in Jamaica,...

One woman's struggle for survival at sea alone on a forty-foot sailboat, Lady Alone is a tribute to those souls who have conquered their fears to overcome deteriorating calamities far beyond their limits. Joan Mackland, a twenty-three year old Kiwi with no previous sailing...