Joan Druett

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1988
  • Latest Book:
    March 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Promise of Gold

1 - Judas Island (Aug-2013)
2 - Calafia's Kingdom (Aug-2013)
3 - Dearest Enemy (Aug-2013)

Wiki Coffin

1 - A Watery Grave (Oct-2004)
2 - Shark Island (Oct-2005)
3 - Run Afoul (Oct-2006)
4 - Deadly Shoals (Dec-2007)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • Abigail

    Born at sea and raised in early nineteenth-century New Zealand, strong-willed Abigail Sherman is the daughter of the American owner of a shore-whaling station. Trouble with the English authorities prompts Captain Sherman to set Abigail on board a shi...

  • A Promise of Gold

    THE ACTRESS -- As tough underneath as she was soft on the outside, Harriet Gray fast-talked her way onto Jake Dexter's ship, double-talked his crew into joining the rush to California, and sweet-talked her way into the captain's arms -- before she ...

  • Hen Frigates

    A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels enc...

  • A Watery Grave

    Wiki Coffin - 1

    The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists,...

  • Shark Island

    Wiki Coffin - 2

    Wiki Coffin, linguist aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition, the famous voyage meant to put America at the forefront of 19th century scientific discovery, brings many skills to his job. Whether he's translating native languages, assisting his good fri...

  • Run Afoul

    Wiki Coffin - 3

    U.S. Exploring Expedition linguist Wiki Coffin sails with the famous convoy of ships toward Brazil, with no idea of the amazing events the fates and the winds have set in store for him. As the great flagship Vincennes, under the dubious command ...

  • Deadly Shoals

    Wiki Coffin - 4

    Wiki Coffin plays many parts on the U.S. Exploring Expedition---sailor, linguist, navigator, and, as half-Maori, cultural go-between. But then the brig Swallow reaches the coast of Patagonia, an area infamous for its rough gauchos and revolutionary s...

  • The Beckoning Ice

    The fifth in the Wiki Coffin series finds the U.S. Exploring Expedition off Cape Horn, a grim outpost made still more threatening by the report of a corpse on a drifting iceberg, closely followed by a gruesome death on board. Was it suicide, or a par...

  • A Love of Adventure

    Born at sea and raised on shipboard, adventurous young Abigail Sherman wants nothing more than to be wedded to the ocean for life. Instead, fate conspires against her. Beset by problems with the British administration in New Zealand, her widowed fath...



  • Calafia's Kingdom

    Promise of Gold - 2

    Like a phantom dogging Harriet Gray’s trail, Frank Sefton is polished, charming -- and utterly ruthless. Once, he abandoned the actress to a miserable fate on the far-flung shores of New Zealand. Now, he is back in her life -- full of devious sche...

  • Dearest Enemy

    Promise of Gold - 3

    That the Gosling Company should become a theatrical company was a preposterous idea -- as crazy as the actual fact that Captain Jake Dexter, once a respectable Yankee mariner, was now an infamous pirate. Yet, he had already travelled such a long, str...

  • Judas Island

    Promise of Gold - 1

    As she stood on the deck of the brig Gosling, Harriet Gray was forced to face an unhappy truth. She had been duped, yet again. At eighteen, the lovely English actress had already known more than her share of betrayal. And now, a dishonest shipmaster ...

  • Robber Crabs

    Wiki had been enjoying life in the East Indies and the South China Sea. He could speak the local language, so had sailed happily on coastwise craft in the company of Bugis rogues and pirates. But then George Rochester had arrived on the Potomac, and...

  • The Money Ship

    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 o...

  • The Dragon Stone

    Condemned to death by the Sultan of Brunei, Nelson O'Cain seeks to save himself with a tattoo of a dragon -- a rampant dragon with wings outstretched, the same dragon that was carved on a obelisk on a small island at the mouth of a river in Borneo. ...

  • The Launching of the Huntress

    Money ships were wrecks of treasure-galleons that were belched up from the bottom of the sea after tremendous storms, yielding doubloons and all other kinds of precious treasure ... gold bars and bullion, chests of brilliant gems. Though just a stor...

  • The Midwife's Apprentice

    By making Nelson O'Cain his partner, Michael Gardiner has disinherited his daughter, Jerusha, who is in faroff Massachusetts, learning the skills of a herb-woman and midwife. So he devises the crazy idea of an arranged marriage with Nelson, to salve...

  • The Privateer Brig

    On a shimmering morning on the Moluccan Sea young Jerusha is sent by her father, Captain Michael Gardiner, to pay a call on a mysterious brig that had arrived in the night. Not only is the dashing craft more piratical than Jess had expected but the ...

  • Finale

    This cross-continental journey had proved very pleasant, particularly considering that he was dead. Or so Timothy ironically mused… The year is 1905, and the heyday of Thames, in the goldfields of New Zealand. Back in 1867, Captain Jake Dexter, a f...



  • Daughters of the Storm

    A raging hurricane. A tiny fishing village in a distant land. A London nightclub dancer stumbles into the local clinic with the famous fire-fighter who carried her to New Zealand. The wife of an American shipping tycoon is on board his new luxury yac...

  • Storm Swept

    Harold Pcderson's discovery ships are in trouble. Specializing in exploring remote estuaries and photographing endangered wildlife in South East Asia and the western Pacific, his fleet ventures into waters that are rife with pirates.When Jerry Giacom...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joan Druett has published 21 books.

Joan Druett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Storm Swept, was published in March 2022.

The first book by Joan Druett, Abigail, was published in September 1988.

Yes. Joan Druett has 2 series.
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