Richard Carvel — Volume 03
A young man's honor is on the line, and everything unravels in this breathless third volume of Winston Churchill's colonial epic. Richard Carvel has survived political betrayal and social maneuvering, but nothing prepares him for the consequences of a duel he never asked for, provoked by the scheming Mr. Allen, who has been pulling strings to destroy him from within. Now Richard must live with the notoriety of blood on his hands, caught between his family's expectations and his own conscience. In the charged atmosphere of pre-Revolutionary America, his path collides with Colonel Washington, a meeting that hints at the great events to come. But before his destiny can unfold, he is captured by pirates aboard the ship Black Moll, thrown into a world of violence and captivity that will test everything he believes about himself. This is a novel about what remains when a young man loses everything familiar: his fortune, his name, his certainties. The sea and its dangers become his crucible, and what emerges is someone harder, wiser, and utterly changed.
