Posts Tagged ‘royal navy’
Regency Royal Navy Christmas, by Carla Kelly
Regency Royal Navy Christmas, by Carla Kelly Even the squared away, efficient Royal Navy must surrender to the joys and misadventures of a Regency Christmas. Four stories shine a light on Christmas during the Napoleonic Wars on land and sea. In Boxing the Compass, a homesick frigate captain shepherding a convict convoy to Australia wants…
Read MoreUnlikely Spy Catchers, by Carla Kelly
The Unlikely Spy Catchers, by Carla Kelly The Unlikely Spy Catchers is about friendship and love, an unusual school for workhouse boys training for the Royal Navy, and the ever-present danger of life in a seafaring town at a time of grave national emergency, as Napoleon considers taking his war to England itself. Book 2…
Read MoreThe Unlikely Master Genius, by Carla Kelly
The Unlikely Master Genius, by Carla Kelly Sailing Master Able Six, Royal Navy, is a man like no other. To call him a mere polymath is to sell him short. Someone with his extraordinary gifts should rise to the top, unless it is the 1800s, where pedigree and money govern Regency society, as sure as…
Read MoreMiss Whittier Makes a List, by Carla Kelly
Miss Whittier Makes a List, by Carla Kelly In the early 1800s, seventeen-year-old Hannah Whittier is traveling by ship down the coast from her Quaker home in Massachusetts to her brother’s house in Charleston, South Carolina. To while away the dull hours, Hannah composes a list of qualities she wants in a husband. Boredom will…
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