Alec Merrill

• Nov-2013
• / Historical
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The summer of 1744 in England is dry; with crops beginning to fail, poaching is the only alternative to starvation, even though it is illegal and carries a heavy punishment. As sixteen-year-old Jonathan Swift carefully slides through dry brush in the...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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EXCITING NAUTICAL FICTION WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING! Winter 1747, Jon Swift arrives in New York seeking employment related to his hard earned master’s qualifications. Finding nothing suitable, he signs on the schooner P...

• Apr-2016
• / Mystery
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EXCITING NAUTICAL FICTION WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING. Assume you are the new owner of a cargo vessel with access to secret information. You need money to pay for the ship and crew. Your competition is well-entrenched with c...

• May-2016
• / General Fiction
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Imagine travelling to your friend’s house for a visit only to find him dead. His wife and children are missing. It takes five hours to reach the nearest settlement which doesn’t have any authorities. What do you do? Ezekiel Feare, a new struggl...

• Jun-2017
• / Mystery
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EXCITING NAUTICAL FICTION WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING Winter 1747. Jon Swift, captain of the schooner Providence and owner of the Hudson Trading Company, has a new business to run. Besides the Providence, he has two other ships ...

• Nov-2017
• / Mystery
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EXCITING NAUTICAL FICTION WITH ENOUGH TWISTS AND TURNS TO KEEP YOU GUESSING. Spring 1748. Captain Jon Swift attempts to establish a permanent base in Norfolk, Virginia to mask the organization of contraband operations in the Chesapeake Bay area. Star...