The Seafaring Women of the Vera B

By Susan Page Davis, James S. David, James S. Davis

Book Overview

A ship without men. A crew of women with everything to lose.

When Captain Ruel Packard dies in a foreign port and his men desert to the goldfields, his wife, must decide: abandon the Vera B or take the helm herself.

With a weather-scarred boatswain at her side, Alice scours Melbourne and melds together a fisher girl, a barmaid, a farmer's widow, a countess and her maid, and a handful of women fleeing a brothel to make up her new crew.

Across tempest and betrayal, these women learn to splice rope, reef sail, and mend their own shattered hearts. Each mile tests their faith and their friendship. Each horizon brings pirates, storms, and a question the charts cannot answer: how far will they go to keep a promise?

This historical fiction blends danger, devotion, and quiet heroism.

From the bustle of colonial Australia to the wild reaches of the Coral Sea and the Indian Ocean, this maritime saga brims with peril, hope, and the strength of women who dare the impossible.

Readers who relish the seamanship of Patrick O'Brian and the heart of Kristin Hannah will find both in The Seafaring Women of the Vera B-a sweeping, faith-infused voyage of survival and courage.

Set sail with the Vera B-and discover what courage sounds like in the wind.

his title was originally published by Tea Tin Press.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649175590
• ISBN13: 9781649175595
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Scrivenings Press LLC
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Unique, exciting, inspiring, satisfying

I picked this book up because the plot intrigued me - I had yet to come across an inspirational historic fiction novel with a ship captained and sailed by women! I devoured my husband's Patrick O'Brien's series (the basis of the Master and Commander movie with Russell Crowe) so I figured I'd enjoy one about women sailors, but when I finished with the women of the Vera B, I told my husband he had to read it, as I was sure he'd even enjoy it - I was right! Good storytelling, a great mix of varied, likable, flawed characters as well as the ones you lovingly want to knock some sense into... And all the while the God-fearing women are approachable but not preachy, and you can relate to and root for the ones who are newly learning about Jesus, and discovering Faith. Love the sailing context - very refreshing and fun, even when it terrified me to think of the work you'd have to do on a rocking ship, in stormy weather, so far off the deck. Yikes! Looking forward to the next book and hoping as well as the authors set things up that there will be several more books to come!