Novedades

1688. The desolate, sun-scorched coast of Baja California—the edge of the known world. Seeking refuge from relentless Spanish patrols and the brutal realities of buccaneering, the weary crew of the French pirate ship Sea Serpent drops anchor in the hidden sanctuary of Pichilingue Bay. Among them is Jean-Luc de Lisle, a young Frenchman haunted by a life left behind, increasingly disillusioned by the cycle of violence and greed that defines the brotherhood of the coast. Under the pragmatic Captain Ravenneau and his dangerously sadistic first mate, Le Corbeau, Jean-Luc yearns for something ...

Gibraltar & Corsica, 1795: American Kate Senlis grew up on her father's trading ships, traveling around the world. Her mother died when she was just a little girl, but Kate learned how to heal with herbs using her mother's journals. Now with her father also gone, Kate is just trying to get home again. Deception comes too easily, and so when it's a matter of survival, Kate has to become a ghost. A Contrary Wind: "True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher." ~Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

France & Spain, 1795: The adventure continues in the saga of a sea bound healer caught between a British naval blockade and the bloody battles of the counter-Revolution in France. But there's something odd happening to her now, and it started with a rap upon her head, compliments of a French prison. Her cousin is dead, but she's remembering things from a past she had forgotten long ago, a trauma when she was only six years old. Hopefully, fulfilling her promise made there won't be the end of her. Waters, Winds & Rocks: "Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-...

Golden Globe Race 2018-19: The Long Way Without GPS is not merely a chronicle of a race. It is a meditation on the human spirit tested by the sea—the kind of test that strips away comfort, technology, and pretense, and leaves only the sailor, the boat, and the long, unrelenting ocean. In 2018, fifty years after the original Golden Globe Race first dared men to sail alone, non-stop, around the world, a new generation of sailors answered the same call. But this was no modern regatta. There were no satellites, no GPS, no weather routing. The rules were spartan. The solitude, absolute. These ...