My new series, The Dawn of America, is here, just in time to celebrate the year of America's 250th Anniversary. The Irish Yankee, book 1, just became available for preorder on Amazon.
The Privateers
They were the daring American seamen who seized British merchant ships during the Revolutionary War, disrupting British supply lines to aid the Continental Army. Initially operating in the shadows as a pirate militia of the sea, General George Washington encouraged them and American Patriots embraced them, giving the little fleet of pirates the name “Washington’s Navy.” Eventually they were armed with letters of marque, transforming them from outlaws to official heroes, allowing them to seize enemy vessels as prizes of war. Individual colonies (states after 1776) commissioned privateers, and in March 1776 the Continental Congress legalized them and began issuing commissions.
The Irish Yankee
In June 1775, amid the Revolutionary War’s early stirrings, Irish Yankee Jeremiah O’Brien, seized a British armed schooner off the Maine coast to thwart the cargo of lumber she was escorting from reaching British forces in Boston. Inspired by this daring victory, Jeremiah abandoned his lumber business to command privateer vessels, relentlessly pursuing British merchant ships across dangerous waters. Defying the British navy’s tightening grip on the Massachusetts coast, he risked his life and his ships to capture many prizes. Yet his greatest battle may lay onshore: winning the heart of Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, a fiercely independent woman who loves the freedom he fights for. Only a man worthy of the title “the hero of the Lexington of the Sea” could earn her love and prove himself worthy of her strength.
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