Voices Beckon, Pt. 1 · the Voyage

The year is 1783. Passengers are swarming the Bristol quay, anxiously awaiting the call to board.

David Graham, a Scot indentured for the next six years to a Philadelphia printer, waits among them, as does Elisabeth Hale, a young Englishwoman making the passage with her father, and Liam Brock, an orphaned Scot with a dubious past and a keen eye to his future.

Thrown together despite differences of class and religion, the three forge an unwavering bond of friendship, love, and loyalty while aboard the brig Industry.

This 37,000 word NOVELLA (145 print pages) is the first of three parts of the full length novel, Voices Beckon.