The Admiral's Daughter

Thomas Kydd has barely set foot on English soil after years of chaotic overseas adventures when disaster strikes. England lies prostrate, starving and bankrupt, threatened from within and without. His beloved sloop Teazer awaits him in harbor, and Kydd longs for nothing more than the simple communion of ship and sea. But duty has other demands. He's dispatched on an urgent mission to northern France, where smugglers, privateers, and murderous weather conspire against him. Yet the true danger lies not in hostile waters but in his own heart, where a growing attachment to the admiral's daughter threatens to wreck everything he holds dear: his career, his honor, and the friendship with Nicholas Renzi that has sustained him through every storm. This is a novel about the impossible choices that define a man, set against the rattle and roar of the Napoleonic navy at the dawn of another war.