After a nerve-shattering encounter with military justice in The Accused, Craig Parshall's third novel, all lawyer Will Chambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona… A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But when Will reluctantly looks into a local inheritance case involving Jonathan Joppa, a down-on-his-luck preacher-- “Piracy charge--Joppa's ancestor? What…when?” “Why, for being part of Blackbeard's pirate crew…in the early 1700s…” Will just wants to rest, but Fiona keeps insisting there's something missing…buried. Soon the two have had a near-fatal brush with smugglers--and together they've unearthed the truth: about a pirate's history, about Jonathan Joppa, and about two remarkable women--one in the past, and one in the present.
