Pirate Gold

What if a bank clerk stumbled upon a pirate's fortune? That's exactly what happens to James Bowdoin when a mysterious bag of gold surfaces in an old vault, tied to a very real and very dangerous pirate named Romolo de Soto. Bowdoin and his colleague Jamie McMurtagh are thrust from their orderly lives into a world of buried treasure, shifting loyalties, and impossible choices. At the center stands Mercedes Silva, the pirate's daughter, whose future is forever tangled with her father's bloody past. As the gold's true owners close in, Bowdoin must choose between the quiet safety of his clerk's desk and the treacherous excitement of a life he'll never be able to return from. Stimson writes with keen eye for the constraints of Gilded Age society, where reputation is everything and a single scandal can destroy a family forever. The romance unfolds against mounting danger, asking what we owe to our origins and whether redemption is possible when the world has already decided who you are.