Slave Island

Slave Island Volume 1 is a sweeping historical adventure set against the turbulent backdrop of the eighteenth century. The story follows Billy Peake, a young English colonial from Boston who invests his inheritance in a cargo of Mexican silver destined for China. His ambitions turn into a nightmare when he discovers the vessel is a slave ship and suspects his own brother is conspiring with the convoy owner, Gabriel Easton.

This work of historical genre fiction spans the Ottoman Empire and revolutionary China, depicting a world of colonial bordellos and lavish Turkish slave auctions. After being abandoned on the African Slave Coast, Billy must survive a brutal caravan march across the continent. Along the way, he encounters fellow prisoner Jennifer Brett, leading to a desperate romance amidst the cruelty of the legendary Eastern fortress known as Slave Island.