After a nerve-shattering encounter with military justice in "The Accused," Craig Parshall's third novel, all lawyer Will Chambers wants to do this summer is relax with his wife, Fiona... A long stay on the North Carolina coast seems perfect. But when Will reluctantly looks into a local inheritance case involving Jonathan Joppa, a down-on-his-luck preacher- ""Piracy charge-Joppa's ancestor? What...when?"" ""Why, for being part of Blackbeard's pirate crew...in the early 1700s..."" Will just wants to rest, but Fiona keeps insisting there's something missing...buried. Soon the two have had a near-fatal brush with smugglers-and together they've unearthed the truth: about a pirate's history, about Jonathan Joppa, and about two remarkable women-one in the past, and one in the present.
- ISBN10 0736911758
- ISBN13 9780736911757
- Publish Date 31 December 2004 (first published 1 March 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 July 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvest House Publishers,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English