Bluebells in the Amazon: Legend of the African Pirates

By James Knepp

Belle Livingston finds her seventeen year old friend, Stratton Bannon gravely wounded from a shotgun blast. The young Confederate soldier is dying in her arms as his fellow soldiers come across the grim scene. With his last breath he confesses Belle was the one who shot him With Union forces overrunning Norfolk Crossing the Confederate soldiers take Belle prisoner and whisked away to the ironclad, C.S.S. Carolina.
The Confederate ironclad was setting sail on a desperate mission to prevent total defeat by the South when Belle was brought aboard. The Carolina is on an expedition to the unexplored region of Amazon Jungle. Belle knows she has to prove her innocence against overwhelming odds or face a jungle trial...with the true killer hiding inside the Carolina.
The handsome Sage Sterling is rescued at sea and Belle falls in love with the man from Ontario. During the journey they fall in love. He vows to help Belle clear her name and find the murderer of Stratton Bannon.
They discover the Confederates are on an expedition to find a lost African Pirate treasure to keep slavery thriving in the South Their love and her loyalty to the South is tested when Sage devises a way to stop the wicked expedition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FHPSLGW9
• ISBN13: 9798292288480
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"