Sarah Trunup is a privileged daughter of the mercantile aristocracy of the North American Confederacy twenty-four years after the South won the Civil War. In the sharply divided nation dominated by moneyed monopolies, her luxurious San Francisco existence rests on her father's shipping empire as the Age of Sailing races on and piracy in the style of Blackbeard and Kidd continues with it. In the wake of a major economic victory for the Trunup Industry, Sarah's security crumbles overnight with a hushed midnight meeting, a legal threat from a vindictive competitor, and her father's disappearance. The months that follow become a race between continents, disasters, and assassins as Sarah is immersed in the conspiracies of her family history and the desperately rich. From the Republic of Tokyo to the Mayan Empire, the pursuit of fortune and pride becomes a lesson in loyalty and survival. Alison Lanier lives outside Boston with her family and a small menagerie of pets. This is her...

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