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Welcome to David Miles Books, the website of author David Allen Miles, writer of the Myles Balfour series. The Myles Balfour series is an action-packed nautical adventure series that will keep you turning pages.
Balfour and the Shadow Pirate - Book 1
A secret criminal cabal sets in motion a diabolical plot which targets the Balfour family. Myles Balfour and his friend, Thomas Compton, struggle to understand the peril, taking desperate measures to stop the relentless terror. British revenue cutters, piracy, kidnapping, and worse stalk Balfour as he sails into perilous waters as captain of the schooner Penobscot in pre-revolutionary America.
Balfour and the Cargo of Innocence - Book 2
It is summer 1774 and Myles Balfour sets sail for Saint Domingue. His ship and her crew become the target of evil more dire than he could ever imagine. In this remote French colony. a heartless plantation economy, a seething population of rebellious slaves live under a crushing burden of forced labor. Balfour's ship Gansett is short handed and her crew forced to fight to the death to protect their unique cargo. Pressured by political intrigue and diabolical schemes, Myles must come up with imaginative strategies to protect his men and his ship.
Balfour and the Dangerous Choice - Book 3
This is the third novel detailing the saga of Myles Balfour, Captain of the Schooner Gansett. The time is 1776, and he cruises the the coast of North America and the Caribbean, as a newly Marqued privateer. It is a dangerous new vocation, bringing him into contact with the most diabolical foes, testing his skills as a mariner and fighting jack.
His adventures run the gamut from, saving his ship after a near fatal run in with a British frigate to saving his family from a cleverly planned kidnapping.
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