The Cannon and the Quill: Book One: We All Be Jacobites Here *signed*

1715. While the Scottish Jacobites fight to put James of the House of Stuart on the British throne, a war has begun in the Caribbean, fought by the forgotten few, the Republic of Pirates, led by Benjamin Hornigold. Only 16 years old, Angus MacGregor, nephew of the Highland outlaw, Rob Roy, arrives in Nassau in the Bahamas to help further the cause. Joined by Joseph Stanton, running away from indentured servitude in Boston, Angus embarks on an adventure that brings him face to face with the pirates of the Golden Age: Charles Vane, “Black” Sam Bellamy, and the most famous of them all: Edward “Blackbeard” Thache. Mixing history with the supernatural, The Cannon and the Quill celebrates the fight of those who have little against those who rule the world.Covering the expansive Atlantic World is no easy task for most authors, and despite a dark allusion to the evils of capitalism and slavery, Madia's book expertly expresses a robust "Yo Ho Ho, Me Hearties!" through well-researched passages that readers usually find in time-travel adventures or Bruckheimer films!—Baylus C. Brooks, MA Maritime History, author of Quest for BlackbeardAn extravagant, sweeping tale, encompassing both sides of the Atlantic, bya gifted storyteller with intriguing characters marching you throughhistory, bringing Jacobites and (my favorite) pirates together! Can't waitfor book two of the "Cannon and the Quill" series.—Captain Horatio Sinbad, Privateer MEKA II, Beaufort, NC, author of Sword of Tortuga