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Time and Tide

✍ Scribed by Fleming, Thomas


Book ID
108653419
Publisher
New Word City, LLC
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
7 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781612307206

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✦ Synopsis


The cruiser USS Jefferson City is a ship haunted, perhaps doomed, by a stain on her honor.

Her captain is torn between his love for two women, his loyalty to his best friend, and to the Navy to which he has devoted his life.

Time and Tide begins with the Jefferson City looming out of the dawn, fleeing a night of terror and death, the bodies of crewmen floating in water-filled compartments below decks. She has deserted her sister ships at the Battle of Savo Island - the worst naval defeat in U.S. history.

The Jefferson City's captain, Kansas-born Arthur McKay, has relieved his best friend and Annapolis roommate, Captain Winfield Scott Schley Kemble, and must decide whether to protect his friend's reputation against the Navy's determination to blame him for the Savo disaster or root out the truth.

McKay's tough-minded wife Rita wants him to destroy Kemble, a man she once loved and now loathes. But Rita's fragile, seemingly innocent sister Lucy is the...


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