Louisiana Privateer

Historical, Nautical, Fiction - A Swashbuckler Young Thomas Andrew James, age 17 loves his family. So much so that he carries out the instructions of his grandpa, Colonel Julian LeGrande, to remove all evidence of murder. On the day before Christmas in 1834 with a wagonload of illegally imported slaves hidden at long-abandoned Vernon Plantation Tom finds he's being hunted by a gang of Texas outlaws hell-bent on revenge for the murders of their fellow gang members AND they want those slaves. If Tom survives he'll be considered an accomplice to the first murderous incident. Only now the sheriff will add to the murder warrant sure to be issued. Tom's only choice is to RUN! But far to the east upon the shores of the mighty Mississippi awaits a sidewheel steamboat. There at the deep-water dock lies Tom's destiny, the good ship Ambrosia and her inscrutable skipper Homer Peabody AND his beautiful daughter.