The Brandy Mud

The year is 1840 and the perilous trade of whaling threatens to dash both fortune and sanity against the rocks for seasoned schooner Captain Stanley Knowles. Professionally adrift and beset by passionate entanglements, Stanley charts a course through hazardous waters, seeking to salvage his affairs while clinging to personal morals amidst mounting turmoil.

When ship and shore alike promise danger, every decision carries gut-wrenching risk. Stanley’s path requires outmanoeuvring lethal storms, hostile pirates, political schemes and amorous pitfalls alike with equal dexterity. One false move could reduce all – his principles, his mind, and his crew’s very lives – to flotsam in the winds of fate.

This steamy and exciting historical saga captures the adventures of a desperate captain warring within while struggling to steer crew and lovers toward a better life. Yet time and chance wait for no one. On the waves or in the sheets, one thing is certain: explore forbidden treasures at your own peril, lest the rising tide swallow you whole.

British author, Rozi Peters, has led a colorful life from military enlistment at an early age, going on to civilian employment within the aviation sector. The author has traveled around the world, visiting upwards of seventy countries, often for months or even years at a time. He has worked in and explored a wide variety of environments and situations; ranging from war zones and hardcore motorcycle tours to offshore racing yachts.This great adventure has stretched from New Zealand to the black beaches of Iceland and beyond; taking in deserts, jungles, and barren peaks. Countless challenges have been met and overcome along the way. Only an original and true imagination could foster such a pure spirit and lust for adventure within one single body. Rozi Peters now seeks to draw on life’s experiences to create works that will take the reader to the bitter cold ends of the earth and back safely again to hearth and home.