Écrivant sous un pseudonyme, cette auteure crée des romans historiques captivants qui plongent souvent le lecteur dans le monde palpitant de la guerre navale et des exploits héroïques. Son style se caractérise par un souci méticuleux du détail historique et une capacité à transporter le lecteur dans les événements dramatiques du XVIIIe siècle. À travers ses personnages, elle explore les thèmes de l'honneur, du courage et des dilemmes moraux en temps de conflit. Ses œuvres sont appréciées pour leur capacité à faire revivre le passé, offrant aux lecteurs une expérience littéraire immersive.
'Fire as she bears. Rake her, lads.' Winter, 1793. Newly promoted Master and Commander Charles Hayden's orders are to deliver the frigate HMS Themis to Lord Admiral Hood, whose fleet is sheltering in the Mediterranean. Only hours out of port, however, and the Themis is engaging with the French navy.
Born to an English father and a French mother, lieutenant Charles Saunders Hayden's career is damned by his ?mixed? heritage. Assigned to the HMS Themis , an aging frigate under the command of a captain reviled by his crew for both his brutality towards his men and his cowardice in battle, Hayden is torn between honor and duty, as the British navy engages the French in a centuries-old struggle for power.
Captain Charles Hayden has orders to destroy a French frigate sailing from Le Havre and to gather intelligence from a royalist spy. On discovering French plans for an imminent attack on British soil, Hayden must return to Portsmouth to give warning before it is too late. But the enemy have been lying in wait for him, and so begins a dangerous chase out into the Atlantic and into the midst of a French squadron.