Gary R. Bush – författare

In 1803, cocky Jamie Sharpe graduates top in his class from Bullard''s Academy, aiming to become a ship''s captain like his long-at-sea father. Unfortunately, wealthy slave trader Captain Cutts produces a note he holds on the Sharpe family fortune. He demands immediate payment or, in lieu, Jamie''s mother''s virtue and her daughter''s hand in marriage to his son, Simon. Only a small fortune can save the family.

Racing to secure the money, Jamie is ambushed. He awakes aboard a slaver bound for Africa, at the mercy of his old enemies, Simon Cutts and BIlly Scars.

Jamie will need to grow up quickly to survive the seas of treachery.