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.
 
Paperback