PARALLEL STORIES

When the voyage does not end with the final page, it continues in the novellas. The Draycott Bloodline extends into a body of standalone works and short sequences that unfold alongside the main saga, drawing central and secondary figures into their own dangerous campaigns.

Fully canon, these narratives run parallel to the novels, intersecting with major events and at times colliding directly with them. They confront the burdens of command, divided loyalties, and the cost of holding authority in violent waters. They plunge far deeper into the supernatural: spectral fleets, cursed cargoes, predatory creatures, and blood-soaked reckonings. They also move through the brutal realities of the seventeenth-century Atlantic world, from sadistic colonialists to Barbary corsairs and Ottoman privateers who rule the sea by force.

The novellas move directly through recorded history and the brutal realities of the seventeenth-century Atlantic world. Royalist intrigue, covert operations, shifting allegiances, and campaigns fought in the shadows sit alongside disease, abuse, famine, storms, mutiny, and open war. Alliances with figures such as Henry Morgan, legends of fearsome mariners with wolf’s blood in their veins, espionage networks, and clashes against colonial power all take shape here. Nothing is abstract. Consequences are immediate. Love, marriage, betrayal, loyalty, ambition, and death all find their place in these shorter works.

Together, the novellas widen the saga laterally, filling the intervals between major campaigns and extending the world beyond a single generational arc. While distinct from the central timeline, they deepen it. Where the novels trace inheritance across centuries, the novellas test that inheritance in specific moments, under strain, often at sea, where survival and honor determine what endures.

THE WOLVES OF THE WEST INDIES

Set between 1656 and 1668, The Wolves of the West Indies novellas follow the Draycott through their Royalist operations and the growth of the fleet at Île-à-Vache in the turbulent years after The Wolf and the Shipmaster’s Daughter. This short fiction cycle unfolds in a Caribbean defined by exile politics, colonial rivalry and war.

Some stories move through Royalist intelligence networks and covert operations carried out on behalf of the Crown in exile. Others turn to ship engagements, blockades, coastal raids, and armed negotiation. Command decisions carry immediate consequence. Alliances shift. Survival is never assumed.

As the world around them grows more conscious of what moves beyond ordinary sight, the supernatural current intensifies. Ghost convoys, witchcraft, sea creatures, blood inheritance, and adversaries who wield terror as strategy press against the material world.

Across these years, the building of a fleet, the defense of allies, and the consolidation of power at sea shape every decision. Marriage, command, loyalty, ambition, and death unfold in the West Indies, where storms, disease, and rival crowns test judgment and resolve.

COMING SOON

The Weight of Seals

The Wolves of the West Indies • Volume One

The cipher finally breaks in Eleanor's hands, and with it, any hope of peace.

Only weeks after their triumph at Cagway, Eleanor decodes the double-sealed letter Mr. Luke entrusted to her care. Beneath formal orders lies something far more dangerous: a list of the King's secret agents scattered across the Caribbean, and proof that a traitor walks among Royalist friends. Lives are already forfeit.