The Wolf and the Shipmaster’s Daughter.
Draycott Bloodline Saga · Book One
Caribbean Sea, June 1656
On a windless night, the slave ship Providence is taken by the 30-gun frigate Sea Wolf. Her captain, Ambrose Draycott, is an English exile striking at Puritan expansion in the West Indies.
Among the captives is Eleanor Harcourt, bound for Jamaica and an arranged marriage. She claims sanctuary and binds her fate to the ship, a choice that will shape a bloodline for three centuries.
Driven from England by Cromwell’s rise, Draycott commands under sworn Articles. The ship runs on discipline. Years earlier, he and his officers defied an ancient sea power and were condemned by it. Now they carry a curse that binds wolf and man in the same flesh. The first turning kills many. The living must keep the ship seaworthy.
Draycott is hunted as a traitor to a kingless England. Eleanor is hunted for defying the marriage arranged for her. As Parliament tightens its grip and rival frigates close the Passage, survival, inheritance, and command converge at sea.
From Treasure Island to Moby-Dick to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to The Terror, sailors have never sailed without superstition and shadow close behind.
The Wolf and the Shipmaster’s Daughter is set in the historically accurate West Indies of the seventeenth century, where the supernatural moves in the shadows of documented history. The Draycott Bloodline Saga spans thirteen volumes and three centuries of seamanship, command, and legacy. It also serves as the foundational book for the short fiction cycle The Wolves of the West Indies.
