Strong Vengeance is out now!
on Jun 17 in Blog Posts, Normal by cosproductions
1818: In the Gulf waters off the Texas coast, the pirate Jean Lafitte and his partner Jim Bowie launch an attack on the Mother Mary, a slave ship carrying an invaluable treasure on board.
The Present: Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong finds herself investigating the mass murder of an offshore oilrig crew that had found the long-lost wreckage of the Mother Mary. But the same crew also uncovered something else beneath the surface of the sea, something connected to a devastating terrorist attack about to be launched on the United States by a mad American-born cleric who has recruited an army of homegrown terrorists to murder hundreds of thousands.
With the stakes higher than any she has encountered before, Caitlin races to find the connection between the secret treasure pilfered centuries before by Jean Lafitte and the deadly secret hidden on the bottom of the ocean. This as she struggles to raise the teenage sons of her imprisoned lover Cort Wesley Masters who secures his release just in time to join the fight by her side.
But shadows and subterfuge abound, starting with Teofilo Braga, a waste management baron hiding secrets born of his own past that are somehow linked to the threats America is facing today. Caitlin’s desperate path plunges her deep into that past and a similar mass murder committed near the island refuge of Lafitte himself, a case pairing her legendary father and grandfather that remains unsolved to this day.
Caitlin’s only chance to defeat the terrorists lies in solving that 30-year-old mystery now, a trek that takes her into the darkest reaches of the Louisiana bayou even as she confronts the darkest evil she has ever faced. In the end, only the strongest of vengeance can win the day, Caitlin and Cort Wesley standing with guns ready to save the country from the greatest threat it has ever faced.
You almost lost me on the first page. I think you need an editor with some knowledge of maritime history. In two successive sentences you describe the Mother Mary as a “multidecked galleon” and “four-masted schooner”. These are two distinctly different kinds of ships. Not only that, but 1821 is well after the era of galleons, and well before four-masted schooners were common.