3rd Editition“Bloodline” covers over two hundred years of history in a fairly short volume. From a young English boy taken from the streets of London to serve on a merchant ship, grows the patriarch of the Merchant family. The generations to follow, with their close alliances to the Silver family and the fellowship of the Watchers, create legacies of values and valuables, principles and faith, strength and persistence. We see the royal flaws and man’s inhumanity to man, and we see the divine qualities of those caused to rise above the wreckage of the world.
Beginning in 1700s England, the Merchant’s Mine Series tells the saga of the Merchant and Silver families and their friends. Young Judas Merchant is taken by an alcoholic merchant ship captain, becomes a Royal Navy Commander, blackmails the Crown after a heinous crime, and becomes a commercial shipping magnate. Judas discovers that he’s part of a secret network of unusual people called “Watchers;” and Judas becomes the very close friend of Nathaniel Silver. The Merchant and Silver families are thus joined in a durable friendship. The original crimes that enriched the Merchants have an enduring impact involving the U.S. Treasury Department, the Merchants, and the Watchers; and the Silvers suffer as well. The parallel paths of the families meander but eventually rejoin, with powerful and amazing results.