Short Stories/Novellas

HMS Armageddon has left England for a mission off the coasts of Britain’s colonies in Canada and America. For Lt. Eastern Shepherd, it is a chance for adventure and fame as the Royal Navy suddenly comes to grip with vicious pirates that plague the waters off Nova Scotia and New England. But there is more than flashing swords and flaming cannon on Shepherd’s mind when he is locked in battle with the buccaneer Black Judas – there is the fiery beauty of young Serenity Greene, the Boston merchant’s daughter, who he would dearly love to see again. If only he can manage to survive dagger thrusts and musket fire and cannon balls and the savage crew of the pirate ship Lucifer.

He loved his lady and woman more than he loved his own soul. But when their storybook marriage fell apart under the weight of a dark depression that threatened to take her life he was helpless. In desperation he turned to a God and a faith he had rejected years before. And when healing did not come right away he prayed the most desperate prayer of his life - "Take the depression out of her, make it into the form of a beast, and let me fight that beast to the death. If I slay it, I slay her darkness, and set her free, and she lives again." Of all the prayers he might have prayed to a God he'd turned his back on this was the one he prayed and this was the one that was answered.