Regarding Matters Discussed Over Coffee
In a London coffee house near the Royal Exchange, Penny Doubloon notices a pattern. Some people arrive after events occur. Others seem to appear before them. It is the second group that interests her.
Crew’s Favourites
Plymouth, 1556. A request arrives concerning a merchant family in Antwerp whose name seems to appear wherever trade, credit, shipping, and influence converge. Before summer’s end, Lady Marrow and the crew find themselves drawn into a world of merchant dynasties, relationships, and the agreements that quietly shape ports and fortunes across Europe.
A stolen cargo, a prison cell in the Tower, and a ledger the Crown would rather not discuss. Cap'n Rumfellow discovers that some missing cargoes leave behind fortunes, and some fortunes leave behind questions.
In a London coffee house near the Royal Exchange, Penny Doubloon notices a pattern. Some people arrive after events occur. Others seem to appear before them. It is the second group that interests her.
The Gazette of the Realm
Dispatches noting events, decrees, conflicts, and quiet movements across the realm.
A letter from Benjamin Robert Haydon draws Flint McLedger to London, where questions of ownership, restitution, and Europe’s displaced treasures are beginning to attract powerful attention.
A stolen cargo, a prison cell in the Tower, and a ledger the Crown would rather not discuss. Cap'n Rumfellow discovers that some missing cargoes leave behind fortunes, and some fortunes leave behind questions.
Free Captains & Fortunes
Accounts of voyages, risks taken, wealth won or lost, and lives altered by chance.
A hurried crossing, a nervous passenger, and a sealed letter bound for the Dutch Republic. Cap'n Rumfellow accepts a routine fare and unknowingly sails into the opening chapter of a far larger affair.
A fleet leaves Plymouth before dawn. By breakfast, the newspapers are speaking of war with France. Cap'n Rumfellow suspects the two matters may be connected, and history is about to prove him right.
Houses, Land & Inheritance
Observations on estates, lineage, succession, and power that endures quietly.
Maps, Routes & Hidden Places
Records of ports, passages, rooms, and places rarely described in full.
In a London coffee house near the Royal Exchange, Penny Doubloon notices a pattern. Some people arrive after events occur. Others seem to appear before them. It is the second group that interests her.
Most men search for treasure. Penny Doubloon searches for the road treasure is forced to travel. In a crowded Plymouth tavern, a pattern begins to emerge that could occupy the crew for years.
Plymouth, 24 May 1572 Most folk think ports are built for ships. I have never found this entirely convincing. Ships come and go. Cargo...
