The Wilde Flower Saga: A Contrary Wind (An Historical Adventure)
Book Details
Author(s)Marilyn M Schulz
ISBN / ASINB00300H1HC
ISBN-13978B00300H1H8
Sales Rank1,113,671
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
France & Gibraltar, 1795
Caught between a British naval blockade and the bloody battles of the French counter-revolution, Kate Senlis is trying very hard to get back home to America—a difficult task when everyone she meets thinks she’s a spy, wants to sell her to a harem or kill her for something she can't even remember.
Twenty years earlier on the colonial frontier, their family settlement was attacked. Six-year-old Katie was the lone survivor, but couldn’t utter a word for years after that. She grew up around the world, traveling with her father on his merchant ships, learning about people firsthand and herbal healing from notes left in her mother's journals.
But after being tossed into a French prison with a nasty rap on the head, Kate is starting to remember that tragic day when most of her family went away. And she can’t help feeling a strange connection between what happened then and current events. Was her family targeted? What became of her missing brothers—only boys at the time? Why was her mother murdered . . . and will Kate manage to remember before she ends up the same way?
“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.”
~ John Petit-Senn
Contains:
Volume I: A Contrary Wind
Volume II: Trouble the Waters
Volume III: In the Sea Unshaken
The Facts: Europe, 1795
French revolutionaries, who call themselves Republicans, are locked in a bloody counter-revolution with a persistent, but unorganized Royalist resistance in a time there called the White Terror.
The French Republicans have also declared war on England, and the powerful British Royal Navy is now blockading Europe. To replenish their war-torn navy, the British are known to stop merchant vessels of any flag, forcibly conscripting anyone born in Britain, even if they call themselves American now.
Pirates from North Africa and the Middle East are ravaging trade vessels in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic—including American vessels.
In response to the growing threats to their merchants and even their sovereignty, the USA has formed a navy by act of Congress. The first five American frigates are said to be formidable.
Caught between a British naval blockade and the bloody battles of the French counter-revolution, Kate Senlis is trying very hard to get back home to America—a difficult task when everyone she meets thinks she’s a spy, wants to sell her to a harem or kill her for something she can't even remember.
Twenty years earlier on the colonial frontier, their family settlement was attacked. Six-year-old Katie was the lone survivor, but couldn’t utter a word for years after that. She grew up around the world, traveling with her father on his merchant ships, learning about people firsthand and herbal healing from notes left in her mother's journals.
But after being tossed into a French prison with a nasty rap on the head, Kate is starting to remember that tragic day when most of her family went away. And she can’t help feeling a strange connection between what happened then and current events. Was her family targeted? What became of her missing brothers—only boys at the time? Why was her mother murdered . . . and will Kate manage to remember before she ends up the same way?
“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.”
~ John Petit-Senn
Contains:
Volume I: A Contrary Wind
Volume II: Trouble the Waters
Volume III: In the Sea Unshaken
The Facts: Europe, 1795
French revolutionaries, who call themselves Republicans, are locked in a bloody counter-revolution with a persistent, but unorganized Royalist resistance in a time there called the White Terror.
The French Republicans have also declared war on England, and the powerful British Royal Navy is now blockading Europe. To replenish their war-torn navy, the British are known to stop merchant vessels of any flag, forcibly conscripting anyone born in Britain, even if they call themselves American now.
Pirates from North Africa and the Middle East are ravaging trade vessels in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic—including American vessels.
In response to the growing threats to their merchants and even their sovereignty, the USA has formed a navy by act of Congress. The first five American frigates are said to be formidable.
