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Rees Kenyon was just a man of twenty when he left his family in Wales and their shipbuilding trade to study medicine in London. He loved his new profession -- but more than that he loved Grace, his mentor's daughter. Before Rees and Grace could be married, a cholera epidemic stole her away and Rees fled both his country and his heartbreak and set sail for the America colonies.
As he is leaving London, he meets Callie Summers, a sixteen-year-old orphan using her wits to survive on the streets. Rees rescues Callie from a cruel "owner" and takes her on as his ward. Together they sail to Boston and into the tumultuous world of the Revolution.
At first Rees tries to remain neutral -- both in his politics and in matters of love -- but events draw him into battle and he discovers he must fight for justice and the independence of his adopted land. He lends his shipbuilding skills to the construction of a "spider catcher, " a small, cunning vessel that can overpower British warships. The once quiet doctor finds a life of deep meaning and high adventure as he joins forces with the Patriots.
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Rees Kenyon was just a man of twenty when he left his family in Wales and their shipbuilding trade to study medicine in London. The once quiet doctor finds a life of deep meaning and high adventure as he joins forces with the Patriots.
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The story of Leah Arlington, daughter of a seafaring family, who during the Revolutionary War converts several of the family's craft to spider catchers--small armed ships--as part of a civilian navy to help in winning America's freedom.
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He is a young Welshman who forsook the family shipbuilding business to study medicine . . . until, poised at the brink of a brilliant career, tragedy broke his heart and shattered his dreams.She is a daughter of London's inner city, a woman-child weaned on life's harsh realities who has learned much about fending for her living and her virtue but little of what it means to be loved.Thrown together by circumstance, Rees Kenyon and Callie Summers head across the ocean toward a new life during the stormy beginnings of the American Revolution. As a new nation struggles for independence, Rees employs his medical knowledge to save lives, and his shipbuilder's skills to build the potent fighting vessel known as the 'spider catcher.' But it is Callie, whom Rees scooped from the mud of the London streets, on whom his own life will soon depend . . . and who can help him find for himself the faith, hope, and love he has taught her.