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The Kansas Pirates Saga #1
Pirate Treasure
They said the boy was haunted and the townspeople of Lawrence, Kansas, wanted nothing to do with widower Seth Ward or his two children. In 1857, superstitions run high.
Left alone to raise Patricia and Peter, Seth has been isolated from his neighbors since the death of his wife from a lingering, malignant disease. Nearly at his wits end, a young woman appears in response to an advertisement for help.
Barbara Nelander dared brave the terror of a dead woman's ghost and the haunting of her son because she was not like other women. Born in Nova Scotia, "Nelander," as she was called, had served as a crewman aboard her father's trading ship since early childhood. Used to working in a man's world and handling difficult situations, she signs aboard with the determination to dispel the ghosts of the past.
Transforming the homestead into a figurative pirate ship, she uses her wiles to restore Peter's self-confidence, extract a buccaneer's revenge on those who tormented him and battles drought alongside Seth as the harsh Kansas summer threatens to destroy the family and the relationship that develops between the "captain" and "first officer."
Left alone to raise Patricia and Peter, Seth has been isolated from his neighbors since the death of his wife from a lingering, malignant disease. Nearly at his wits end, a young woman appears in response to an advertisement for help.
Barbara Nelander dared brave the terror of a dead woman's ghost and the haunting of her son because she was not like other women. Born in Nova Scotia, "Nelander," as she was called, had served as a crewman aboard her father's trading ship since early childhood. Used to working in a man's world and handling difficult situations, she signs aboard with the determination to dispel the ghosts of the past.
Transforming the homestead into a figurative pirate ship, she uses her wiles to restore Peter's self-confidence, extract a buccaneer's revenge on those who tormented him and battles drought alongside Seth as the harsh Kansas summer threatens to destroy the family and the relationship that develops between the "captain" and "first officer."
322 pages, Hardcover
First published January 28, 2014
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February 6, 2014
This story is amazing. I couldn't put Pirate Treasure down! Protaganists' personalities are strong, and their conflicts real.
Taking the role of her father's son, Nova Scotia first captain on a cargo ship, Barbara Nelander is stranded in Lawrence, Kansas. After her father was killed in a brawl trying to protect her good name, their vessel was sold. As an eighteen-year-old woman in the mid-1800s, Nelander does not have access to the money and as she travels back to Nova Scotia, she's out of options.
The only honest work in the radius is to help young farmer and widow, Seth Ward, with his two children, a son and daughter. The Ward family is shunned by the town because the creepy circumstances surrounding the sick former wife's death. Nelander is warned not to work on the isolated farm, ten miles from town. Because Nelander was labeled peculiar herself, she empathizes. The so-called "bewitched" Ward family rings a bell, having been called the "b" word. Red-headed freckled and pretty, Nelander made me laugh and cry. Witty, honest, responsible Seth Ward reads and studies about agriculture. The begin to fall for each other.
I enjoyed reading the humor and authentic dialogue! Nelander, having spent her life on a sailing vessel, thinks in terms of port and starboard. The young son misses his mother, dead for two years, and must be watched constantly by his sister and prevented from digging in her grave. Nelander, with a personality that consumes, reaches him when she creates an optimistic "seaworthy" home. Fresh voices, hopes, dreams, and unexpected love unfold in this amazing book.
I hope to read more from talented authors, Kotar and Gessler.
Taking the role of her father's son, Nova Scotia first captain on a cargo ship, Barbara Nelander is stranded in Lawrence, Kansas. After her father was killed in a brawl trying to protect her good name, their vessel was sold. As an eighteen-year-old woman in the mid-1800s, Nelander does not have access to the money and as she travels back to Nova Scotia, she's out of options.
The only honest work in the radius is to help young farmer and widow, Seth Ward, with his two children, a son and daughter. The Ward family is shunned by the town because the creepy circumstances surrounding the sick former wife's death. Nelander is warned not to work on the isolated farm, ten miles from town. Because Nelander was labeled peculiar herself, she empathizes. The so-called "bewitched" Ward family rings a bell, having been called the "b" word. Red-headed freckled and pretty, Nelander made me laugh and cry. Witty, honest, responsible Seth Ward reads and studies about agriculture. The begin to fall for each other.
I enjoyed reading the humor and authentic dialogue! Nelander, having spent her life on a sailing vessel, thinks in terms of port and starboard. The young son misses his mother, dead for two years, and must be watched constantly by his sister and prevented from digging in her grave. Nelander, with a personality that consumes, reaches him when she creates an optimistic "seaworthy" home. Fresh voices, hopes, dreams, and unexpected love unfold in this amazing book.
I hope to read more from talented authors, Kotar and Gessler.
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