Honor Books in Order

In 1863, New England sailor Peter Wake joins the U.S. Navy and takes command of a captured sloop near Key West. Blockade runners, guerrilla war, and forbidden love force him to make choices no training can prepare him for.

Promoted and given command of the schooner St. James, Peter Wake faces flawed leaders, dangerous missions, and wartime politics in Florida. His growing relationship with Linda offers comfort, but also puts both of them at risk.

Peter Wake's hopes for a peaceful end to the Civil War collapse amid the turmoil of 1865 Florida and the Caribbean. Old friends and old enemies return as secret plots leave his future uncertain.

In 1869, Peter Wake leaves Pensacola for Central America to hunt a former U.S. naval officer turned brutal mercenary. Pirates, political schemes, a troubled marriage, and betrayal aboard his own ship raise the stakes.

In 1873, Lieutenant Peter Wake expects a quiet West Indies patrol before returning to his family. Instead, a clash with the Royal Navy sends him through European intrigue and toward a desperate rescue mission in North Africa.

Sent to observe the War of the Pacific in 1879, Peter Wake becomes part diplomat, part spy, and part naval observer. Battles, political schemes, and danger in Peru test his ideas about duty and honor.

An apparently simple diplomatic mission leaves naval intelligence officer Peter Wake stranded in French Indochina in 1883. Pirates, opium warlords, a typhoon, and regional conflict make his route home a fight for survival.

In 1886, Peter Wake deciphers a secret message linked to Theodore Roosevelt and José Martí. His investigation of Cuban revolutionaries and Spanish agents pulls him toward catastrophe in Key West.

A woman from Peter Wake's past asks him to find her missing son, drawing him from Florida through the Bahamas and into Haiti. Storms, spies, and an anarchist plot turn a personal favor into an international threat.

Peter Wake has five days to rescue two missing American agents after his Havana spy network is exposed. With Spanish counterintelligence setting a trap, every ally, message, and escape route becomes suspect.

In 1889, Commander Peter Wake is sent to Samoa as German and American warships edge toward open conflict. Ordered to prevent a war or win one quickly, he gathers unlikely allies in a dangerous South Pacific mission.

A murder aboard a steamer at Key West reveals a foreign plot to assassinate a world leader within eight days. Peter Wake follows leads through Mexico, Florida, and Cuban politics as time runs dangerously short.

As war with Spain nears in 1898, Captain Peter Wake works as Theodore Roosevelt's naval aide while carrying out a secret mission inside Cuba. Hunted in Havana, he races to deliver captured Spanish documents to the USS Maine.

During the 1898 campaign for Santiago de Cuba, Captain Peter Wake serves as a naval liaison with Cuban and American forces. Amid jungle fighting and confused command decisions, he faces the human cost on both sides of war.

Three years after the Spanish-American War, Captain Peter Wake must defend his wartime decisions before a hostile Navy inquiry. His account takes him back through Cuba, Puerto Rico, blockade runners, and a dangerous Spanish raider.

In 1904, Rear Admiral Peter Wake is sent to Europe to steal Germany's invasion plans for the United States. His covert mission turns into a deadly journey with the Russian fleet during the Russo-Japanese War.

Peter Wake enters the twentieth century facing spies and assassins in the Pacific, then a German intelligence network in Central America. The final novel also follows the Wake family's continuing service through later American wars.