To the Bitter End

The year is 1708 and Matthew Loftus has come a long way since his humble beginnings as an orphan in Whitby. Now a successful fur trader sailing the Newfoundland coast, he wants to put his skirmishes with privateers and pirates behind him. Until the English Navy, his old adversary, sails into the colony of Esperantia and puts the small community under its protection. Matthew is forced by the Navy to sail a perilous rescue mission to the icy reaches of Hudson's Bay in the far north. But he discovers another agenda lies behind his journey — to foil the ambitions of the French.