She?s not lost. She?s just waiting to be found... Dawn Elisabeth Brightside has been running from her past for twenty-two years and two months, precisely. So when she is offered a bed in St Jude?s Hostel for the Homeless, it means so much more than just a roof over her head. But with St Jude?s threatened with closure, Dawn worries that everything is about to crumble around her all over again. Perhaps, with a little help from her new friends, she can...

Jack Aubrey returns from his duties protecting whalers off South America and is persuaded to make investments in the City. From there he is led into the halfworlds of the London criminal underground and of government espionage.

Captain Jack Aubrey finds himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best armed frigate in the Navy, but whilst enroute to England with his friend Stephen, the war of 1812 breaks out. Stephen's past as a spy returns to haunt him.

The Mediterranean, 1793. Despite Britain's successes, the outcome of the sea war is still in the balance. As soon as his ship's refit is completed, Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to join the blockade off the French coast.

After two and a half months of precious peace in Cornwall with his beloved mistress Catherine, Admiral Richard Bolitho is once again summoned to London. In defence of an Empire, the Admiralty must quell the unrest in America.