THE HYGHCOCK CHRONICLES by E. Michael Fisher & James C. Bird
Genre: Historical Fiction
SubGenre: Adventure
EBook formats ISBN: 978-1-59374-933-0
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-59374-932-3

EPPIE AWARD Finalist

There’s adventure aplenty when an Anglican priest, Maynard Hyghcock, is forced to become a whiskey smuggler to support his church in 1680’s colonial America. Pirates and smugglers, Indians and African slaves, a co-conspirator beautiful widow who runs the local tavern and a British Naval officer determined to capture and hang our good priest as a pirate make for an exciting cast of characters. Authors E Michael Fisher and James C Bird’s America of the 1680s is vibrant and alive, and THE HYGHCOCK CHRONICLES is a thrilling adventure you’ll long remember!
“November 30, in the year of our Lord 1683
Parish of Murderkill Hundred, Province of Pennsylvania
Dear Lord, did you torment Job to this extent that you torture me? You have seen me raised from a commoner to a gentleman with a living as a parish priest only to take it away from me. Then when I farmed, you allowed my crops to grow almost to harvest, but then tore them from the ground with the fury of your storms. Is this your way to always build me up just to tear me down? What course would you have me follow that you would not smite me? Give me a sign that you may yet look upon me with favor…”
The Reverend Maynard Hyghcock’s answer came in the form of a barrel of untaxed whisky floating in the river. The events leading from the destitute reverend’s recovery of this sign from God, led him into the life of a buccaneer to keep body and soul together and continue his ministry.

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