Money ships were wrecks
of treasure-galleons belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous
storms, yielding doubloons and all kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and
bullion, chests of brilliant gems.
Oriental adventurer Captain Rochester spun an entrancing
tale to Jerusha, seafaring daughter of Captain Michael Gardiner — a story of a
money ship, hidden in the turquoise waters of the South China Sea, which was nothing
less than the lost trove of the pirate Hochman.
As Jerusha was to find, though, the clues that pointed the way to fabled
riches were strange indeed — a haunted islet on an estuary in Borneo, an
obelisk with a carving of a rampant dragon, a legend of kings and native
priests at war, and of magically triggered tempests that swept warriors upriver. And even if the clues were solved, the route
to riches was tortuous, involving treachery, adultery, murder, labyrinthine Malayan
politics … and, ultimately, Jerusha’s own arranged marriage.
An epic drama of fortune-hunting in the South China Sea
during the first two decades of the nineteenth century, The Money Ship is a fast-moving novel on a sprawling canvas that
spans three oceans and a myriad of exotic ports. As the pages turn, Jerusha
voyages from the smuggling and fishing port of Lewes, Sussex to Boston in its
glittering heyday, then back to newly settled Singapore, until her quest for
love and pirate treasure comes to a spine-chilling climax in the benighted
lands of Borneo.
eBook available on Amazon, in print soon.
eBook available on Amazon, in print soon.
1 comment:
Money Ship, wonderful - bought it right away on Kindle
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