(ISBN 0-9785265-2-X • 369 pgs
• Trade Paperback • $24.95)

A thrilling mystery set in 1860 Wilmington! With war clouds on the horizon, life in the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina is nothing if not exciting. Ace reporter Coleman Blue revels in the hustle and bustle of the booming river town even as, like most whites, he chooses to ignore the ugliness of the slave trade on which so much of the Lower Cape Fear’s wealth is predicated. But when a Yankee insurance detective presses Blue into an investigation of suspicious deaths of slaves owned by a long-time rival, Coleman Blue gets more excitement than he bargained for. On the eve of the Civil War, Coleman Blue is suddenly asking himself hard questions. The answers he finds will leave him fighting for his life.

by James Boyd

Drums

(ISBN 0-9785265-0-3 • $21.00 • 489 pgs
• Trim Size 8” x 5” • Trade Paperback)

Hailed by some critics even today as the best novel of the American Revolution ever written, James Boyd’s 1925 masterpiece tells the story of a young man’s journey from the backwoods of the Albemarle to the quarterdeck of the Bonhomme Richard, in John Paul Jones’ epic fight against the H.M.S. Serapis.

From Edenton and Halifax, to New Bern and the Cape Fear, James Boyd tells the story of America’s struggle for independence as it happened along the North Carolina coast. Compelling, colorful characters, and a historical accuracy that was unheard of before this book, make it a must-have of classic Carolina literature.

(ISBN 0-9785265-1-1 • $19.95 • 290 pgs
• Trim Size 8” x 5” • Trade Paperback )

Suzanne Adair’s debut novel is set in the Southern theater of operations during the American Revolution. Sophie Barton is content with her life on Georgia’s frontier, helping her father run the Alston newspaper and enjoying the attentions of the commander of the local British garrison. But her father, Will St. James, has sided with the rebels in the growing conflict with Great Britain. When he disappears, Sophie assumes the worst. When evidence indicates Will may still be alive and on his way to Florida, Sophie and a few friends take off in pursuit. And they, in turn, are pursued by suspicious redcoats intent on catching the suspected spies. From frontier Georgia to St. Augustine, to Havana and ultimately to South Carolina, this first novel is a thrilling work of historical suspense!