Sparrowhawk Books in Order

In eighteenth-century Cornwall, Jack Frake joins smugglers resisting the Crown’s taxes. When the gang is trapped, his struggle for independence takes a different course, carrying him toward indentured servitude in Virginia aboard the ship Sparrowhawk.

British aristocrat Hugh Kenrick and former indentured felon Jack Frake become neighbors and friends in Virginia. Rejecting royal authority, they develop the convictions and alliance that will draw them toward the struggle for American independence.

Independent-minded Hugh Kenrick struggles against the expectations imposed by his aristocratic family. Joining a secret society of freethinkers places his safety in jeopardy as he searches for a life shaped by convictions rather than inherited obligations.

As Parliament debates the Stamp Act, British supporters of colonial rights organize resistance. In Virginia, Hugh Kenrick assists Patrick Henry’s opposition, linking personal conviction and political action in the growing dispute over taxation and colonial self-government.

With war approaching, Hugh Kenrick returns to England while Jack Frake prepares to fight. A hostile agent seizes the Sparrowhawk, drawing their conflicts toward Boston and a decisive confrontation on Virginia’s York River that tests old loyalties.