A Promise of Gold - Tapa blanda

Seventeen-year-old orphaned actress , Harriet Gray, wheedles her way on to Captain Jake Dexter’s brig Gosling ~ a brig of questionable ownership, whose master is driven by the same promise of conquistador gold that had once drawn Morgan the pirate. If there were dark secrets in the shadows below decks, Harriet had her own surprises for the adventurous crew of the brig. It was no ordinary young woman who had found her way across the seven seas from London to the far side of the world, and she had no ordinary part to play in the voyage of the Gosling toward the beckoning gold ... “Well told, with interesting detail and appealing characters.” ~ Preview “Expertly recreates the dizzying days of the California gold rush.” Cindy Vallar, Pirates and Privateers