Caribbean Gold Books in Order

Caribbean Gold is Michael Reisig's more openly historical Caribbean adventure series. Where the Road To Key West books lean funny and contemporary, these books put more wind in the sails and more weight on the past. They move through pirate strongholds, colonial ports, hidden coves, and modern treasure hunts, always asking what happens when old fortunes survive the people who buried them.

In this series, history is never really finished.

The opening book, The Treasure Of Tortuga, drops readers into 1668 and follows Englishman Trevor Holte and the bolder freebooter Clevin Greymore as they sail from London to Barbados and the West Indies. They are chasing wealth and adventure, but the trip quickly becomes a collision with brutal empires, pirate politics, dangerous alliances, and the hard fact that gold attracts the worst people first. The appeal is not just the chase. It is the whole rough seafaring world around it.

The later books widen the pattern. The Treasure of Time jumps to 1980, when three adventurers leave Key West for Tortuga with an ancient parchment and a handful of clues. The Treasure of Margarita stretches across three centuries, linking pirate-era secrets to modern seekers Travis Christian and William Cody. That back-and-forth structure is part of the fun. Reisig likes to show how a letter, a rumor, or a cache of treasure can echo across generations and pull new people into very old danger.

The setting does a lot of the heavy lifting. Tortuga, Haiti, Port Royal, Havana, Barbados, Margarita, and Key West are not treated as dots on a map. They are active forces in the story. Sea passages matter. Weather matters. Local power structures matter. So do the people guarding the clues, from buccaneers and secret police to gangsters and hard men who think treasure belongs to whoever can take it.

These are swashbucklers, but they are not tidy ones.

What ties the series together is not one permanent hero so much as one shared obsession: the lure of buried wealth and the cost of chasing it. Compared with Road To Key West, the tone is a touch straighter and more sweeping, though Reisig still likes colorful side characters and sudden reversals. Readers can expect shipboard action, romance, betrayals, old documents, and a constant sense that the Caribbean keeps its secrets longer than any map does. If you want adventure with more pirate history and a little less comic chaos, Caribbean Gold is the place to start, beginning with The Treasure Of Tortuga.