The Road to Libertalia
THE SECRETS OF SAINTE-MARIE · BOOK ONE
Andry's father kept the lighthouse at Cape North until the night he went into the harbour and never came out. A year later, Andry slips aboard La Buse's ship to steal back his father's journal.
What he finds in it leads past a French fort, a sunken Spanish wreck and the reef the sailors call the Shark's Teeth, toward a place nobody has ever found.
CHARACTERS
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Andry
The lighthouse keeper's son
Eighteen, and sure his father did not drown. He wants the journal back.
Mialy
Market girl
Sells what the sailors bring ashore and remembers every story that comes with it.
Zahir
Old Moor, fisherman
Mialy's uncle. He knows where the wrecks lie and keeps quiet about most of it.
La Buse
Captain of Le Spectre Noir
The most feared pirate in the Indian Ocean. He has the journal and wants the rest.
Tuvo
Koto's nephew, diver
Moves through the mud like a shadow and holds his breath longer than anyone on the island.
Koto
Fisherman and healer
Zahir's old shipmate, living deep in the mangroves. He knows the old words.
Andry’s mother
The keeper's widow
For a year she has set an extra bowl at supper. She keeps one thing hidden under her shawl.
Barbarossa
Quartermaster of Le Spectre Noir
La Buse's right hand. A scar across his cheek and no patience for thieves.
first in oil and gas and later in mining.
Work took him to Madagascar in 2019. He meant to stay a while, and he stayed. He lives there with his wife and daughters.
The first time he went to Île Sainte-Marie, a local guide walked him through the pirate cemetery above the bay and told him who was buried there.
The Road to Libertalia started that afternoon.
It is his first novel.
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CONTACT
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