Fiction:
Civil War
Bound to Sea
In
1859, Penelope finds herself alone, orphaned and widowed. She learns that her
inheritance from father and husband are invested in a whaling ship, complete
with captain, Micah Daggett. She casts caution to the winds and sails with the
ship as the captain’s wife. During the four-year journey they encounter exotic
people and places, romantic and soul-searching times. Their love is tested by
confinement of the ship and by duties that pull them apart, like waves that
clash and come together on foreign shores. A nefarious First Mate dies
mysteriously at sea. Penelope suffers a miscarriage. They discover that Micah
has a bastard son in Rarotonga, a South Pacific island, and take him with them.
Penelope is left behind in Honolulu, with the ten-year old boy, while Micah
hunts whales in the Bering Sea. Penelope gives up hope and imagines finding
comfort with another man. Micah returns. Eventually they find their place in the
world, a safe harbor, San Francisco.
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