In early eighteenth-century New York, Captain Ludlow of the cruiser Coquette is bent on catching the Water-Witch, a brigantine so swift and elusive that sailors think her bewitched, and her captain, the Skimmer of the Seas. The chase is tangled with the affairs of a merchant alderman, his beautiful niece Alida and the trade that crosses the colony’s waters.
A colourful sea romance from the American novelist who helped invent the genre. Download the free EPUB.