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The Tortuga Plantation
BOOK 2 OF BLOOD, STEEL, AND EMPIRE
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With the Spanish Empire brutally driving the buccaneers from their hunting grounds, the half-wild men must look for a new refuge in the West Indies. They find it just a few miles off the northwest coast of Hispaniola: the island of Tortuga.

Rugged, sparsely settled, but poised on the edge of Spain’s trade routes, Tortuga is an ideal base for the outcast hunters. Among them is the hulking, enigmatic Jean-Baptiste LeBoeuf, now a reluctant leader of the buccaneers. But LeBoeuf’s interest in Tortuga involves more than simply escaping the Spanish Empire. Ownership of a plantation on the island has fallen into his hands, and it is his dream, his vision, to lay claim to that property and put an end to his savage and nomadic life.
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But once again Spain stands in his way, as a powerful fleet sent from Seville comes to route the buccaneers from their latest foothold. Among the expedition’s leaders is Don Alonso Menéndez, lieutenant governor of the West Indies, who has designs of his own for the island and the land LeBoeuf intends to claim. Now the two men will battle for the beautiful Henriette and the hundred acres of paradise that is the Tortuga plantation.

The Narrow Seas
BOOK XI OF THE NORSEMEN SAGA
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Thorgrim Night Wolf and his men, facing off against the powerful army of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, must find some means to continue their voyage home. But Æthelwulf, too, is trapped, unable to set sail on his pilgrimage to Rome while the powerful fleet of Northmen remains at his
doorstep. Only when the enigmatic Felix proposes a solution that will take them across the narrow seas that separate England from Frankia is the impasse broken. This new plan will lead Thorgrim and Louis de Roumois closer to their homes, and into even greater danger on the distant shore.

​As Thorgrim fights for his survival, his son Odd, leader of the rebellion against Halfdan the Black, and his brothers-in-arms, must gauge the threat that awaits them as they make their secret way toward their former homes. But they soon learn the truth; Halfdan’s fury has not abated, and
the king will stop at nothing to run Odd to earth and crush him and his rebellion once and for all.
"Nelson's Viking Sagas are a tour de force of tautly crafted twists, turns full of authentic detail, and plots that drive you to the finish!"
 – Dewey Lambdin, author of the Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures
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