Gwen Humble

While trying to sneak into a Virginia port to deliver some farm tools without paying the unfair taxes on them, Dan and crew, with the help of a local schoolmarm, uncover a racket involving outrageously high export fees and the looting of cargo ships.

Tempest and crew encounter a sailor by the name of Martin, who claims to know the whereabouts of the Aztec treasure known as The Fiery Mirror, a huge, solid gold wheel as thick as a man’s fist.

After Beamish is imprisoned by the new Colonial Governor, under false charges brought by Van Brugh, Dan allows himself to be arrested and jailed, as part of a plan to have Beamish released and to nail the crooked Governor.

A Spanish pirate hatches a plan to overtake the Felicity, an English ship due to arrive with badly needed supplies for New Providence. After the pirates disable the Sultana, Tempest poses as a pirate and sabotages the pirate ship.

Tempest and the crew hatch a clever plan to help a young lad and his sister, whose father has been thrown into jail by the heartless Governor of South Carolina for the crime of insisting that his children receive a good education.

Gaff falls in love with the daughter of the matron of the turtle-fishing Doughty family, and decides to marry his beloved and leave the Sultana.

Tempest butts heads with a Frenchwoman in a dispute over a captured Spanish galleon. The woman eventually charms both Tempest and Beamish and winds up stealing the galleon.

New Providence is critically low on gunpowder, but the Admiralty won’t deliver ahead of schedule. The next delivery is still months away, so Tempest devises a clever, complicated, and harmless scheme to procure the badly needed ordnance.

When an old printer/publisher spreads the word of corruption and conspiracy in the New York Colonial Governor’s office, he is arrested for distributing treasonous material.

The merchants of South Carolina are angry over the low prices offered for their goods by its crooked Governor. When Dan is offered a low price for his shipload, he organizes the merchants and devises a clever plan to outwit the Governor.

Dan must convince his frightened crew that the would-be ghost ship is not piloted by the undead. Tempest and crew encounter a seemingly deserted ship, which, unbeknownst to them, is a front for a gang of pirates.

A sailor named Chantey Jack tells Dickon of how he and Captain Flask buried a stash of treasure years before, and how Flask double-crossed him and left him for dead. When Flask arrives on New Providence, Jack panics and trusts his treasure map to Dickon.