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Newport Rhode Island: 1765<\/p>\n
The Seven Years War is over but unrest in the American colonies is just heating up\u2026<\/p>\n
Maintaining her disguise as a young man, Patricia is finding success as Patrick MacPherson. Formerly a surgeon\u2019s mate in His Majesty\u2019s Navy, Patrick has lately been employed aboard the colonial merchant schooner Andromeda<\/em>, smuggling foreign molasses into Rhode Island. <\/em>Late October, amidst riots against the newly imposed Stamp Act, she leaves Newport bound for the West Indies on her first run as Andromeda\u2019s<\/em> master. In Havana a chance meeting with a former enemy presents unexpected opportunities while an encounter with a British frigate and an old lover threatens her liberty \u2013 and her life.<\/p>\n ISBN: 978-1-943404-12-4\u00a0 Old Salt Press, LLC\u00a0 Softbound. October, 2017<\/p>\n “Linda Collison\u2019s Rhode Island Rendezvous thrills as a hard-to-put-down historical novel of nautical derring-do. Entertaining throughout, the expansive saga charts high-seas adventures between New England, the West Indies, and ports in between in the eighteenth century. The third novel in the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure series picks up the engaging narrative of a cross-dressing surgeon\u2019s mate who strikes out as a ship captain in a profession that was then solely the province of men. Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rhode Island Rendezvous Newport Rhode Island: 1765 The Seven Years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,22],"tags":[10,195,245,387,502,390],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-patricia-macpherson-nautical-adventure-series","tag-historical-fiction","tag-historical-nautical-fiction","tag-old-salt-press","tag-patricia-macpherson-nautical-adventure-series","tag-smuggling","tag-women-sailors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madhatdesign.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h2>\n
“An insightful look at life at sea during the colonial era, this novel offers a combination of adventure, discovery, and intrigue.” \u2013 The BookLife Prize<\/h2>\n
\nSet during a period of social unrest in the American colonies after the Seven Years\u2019 War, when people are rioting over the newly imposed Stamp Act, the meticulously researched novel tracks Patricia MacPherson, an upperclass woman in boarding school cast adrift after the abrupt death of her Caribbean plantation\u2013owning father. Setting off on her own, she poses as Patrick MacPherson, a former surgeon\u2019s mate in His Majesty\u2019s Navy, disguising herself as \u201ca rising young merchant seaman dressed to go to a wedding feast where he will rub shoulders with Newport\u2019s best.\u201d Determined to make her fortune, she becomes a smuggler who sneaks in molasses for \u201cYankee Gold\u201d Rhode Island Rum and ends up captaining the schooner Andromeda as it embarks on a dangerous international voyage…” — Foreword Reviews<\/p>\nRhode Island Rendezvous, Book 3 of Patricia MacPherson’s Nautical Adventures (e-book) is available now for pre-order on Kindle <\/a><\/h2>\n