July 2026
New Release! 

Jack has deserted the British Army during the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, after having to kill his drunken commanding officer in self-defense. He soon finds refuge with a wealthy landowner in Annapolis, Maryland, who offers Jack a place in the family and the hand of his daughter, if Jack will serve as a surrogate in the Continental Army along with the slave, Custis. Jack and Custis endure the harsh winter of 1780-81 at Washington’s army encampment in Morristown, New Jersey, and in the spring are swept into the Battle of Camden, South Carolina, where the Continental forces are decimated by the British. The unlikely pair find themselves separated from their army as they must now survive together, lost in the inhospitable and volatile south, where trust is non-existent and where Custis’ value as a commodity tests Jack’s ability to lead them back home.