The nineteenth book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country made of blood, passion, and dreams. Jon Fisher and Harry Ryan take part in a bloody war between the British and the Zulu in South Africa. Jon Fisher faces war in South Africa. The Zulus have proven themselves a surprisingly powerful enemy to the British Army. After losing his men during battle, Jon Fisher decides to go home to Australia. Harry Ryan has arranged passage for them on a merchant ship. And there starts their travels across the ocean to get back home.

Lords of the Sea revises our understanding of the epic political, economic, and cultural transformations of Japan’s late medieval period (ca. 1300–1600) by shifting the conventional land-based analytical framework to one centered on the perspectives of seafarers who, though usually dismissed as "pirates," thought of themselves as sea lords. Over the course of these centuries, Japan’s sea lords became maritime magnates who wielded increasing amounts of political and economic authority by developing autonomous maritime domains that operated outside the auspices of state authority. They played key roles in the operation of networks linking Japan to the rest of the world, and their protection businesses, shipping organizations, and sea tenure practices spread their influence across the waves to the continent, shaping commercial and diplomatic relations with Korea and China. Japan's land-based authorities during this time not only came to accept the autonomy of "pirates" but also competed to sponsor sea-lord bands who could administer littoral estates, fight sea battles, protect shipping, and carry trade. In turn, prominent sea-lord families expanded their dominion by shifting their locus of service among several patrons and by appropriating land-based rhetorics of lordship, which forced authorities to recognize them as legitimate lords over sea-based domains. By the end of the late medieval period, the ambitions, tactics, and technologies of sea-lord mercenary bands proved integral to the naval dimensions of Japan’s sixteenth-century military revolution. Sea lords translated their late medieval autonomy into positions of influence in early modern Japan and helped make control of the seas part of the ideological foundations of the state.

In the small trade port of Buccaneer Bay lives a young boy named Scarlet where he and his parents own a small inn known as the Nook. Scarlets childhood is a happy one filled with dreams of one day becoming a seafarer like his great-grandfather. On the eve of his seventeenth birthday, a ghost ship visits the bay in search of a strange old man who had lived at the Nook for as long as Scarlet could remember. Because of his mysterious past, the old man had been hunted down by a dangerous and treacherous band of seafarers called the Pirates of the North Atlantic Curse. Their vessel, known as The Renegade, would bring a curse to the shores of this peaceful town, changing the course of young Scarlets life. Thus begins The Scarlet Minor Chronicles; a story of adventure, true love, greed and corruption spanning five volumes: Scarlet Minor and the Renegade Scarlet Minor and the Twin Pikes of Nebo Scarlet Minor and the Crossed Blades Skull Scarlet Minor and the Last Atlantic Fleet Scarlet Minor and the Isles of Black Gold