Author Description

The mid 1800s. Set against the world stage of Victorian England's exploitation of India and China while America's Civil War is about to explode, author Barry Wood creates the unrelenting narrative of clipper ship Captain John Thomas Graves, his friend, former slave Prince Monar and the extraordinary Lady Evelyn Bunting. In this, Book II of The House of Graves, John Thomas' electrifying confrontation with Chinese assassin Archibald Feng Yun-shan, Leader of the Empire of the Sleeping Dragon continues, while dishonored Royal Navy officer Harry Scrimshaw becomes the only stabilizing force against the overwhelming presence and vague ethics of Lord Warfield Blackwood Bunting and Prince Monar. The novel's intensity never falters, transporting the reader onto the Raven, the fastest Clipper ship in the world, the theft of tea shrubs in China, maharajas, maharinis, incalculable wealth, eternal love, and finally, survival and tragedy after the naval battles of the American Civil War.