Somewhere in the Whirlwind

A passionate saga of the great ships and the lovers caught in their stormy wake. From the South Seas to England, America and the distant Sandwich Isles (Hawaii) three generations of powerful and ambitious men and resourceful women pursue love, ecstasy and vengeance in the turbulent 19th century. The California Gold Rush, the early days of the roaring Barbary Coast with its mansions, bordellos and trembling earth, the tragedy of the Civil War and its aftermath, the horrors brought by the outside world to the gentle Sandwich islanders, are vividly brought to life in a fast-moving tale of betrayal and revenge, tragedy and triumph. Somewhere in the Whirlwind deeply explores all the different varieties of love, passion and fulfilment.
Louisa Balmain - the widowed beauty who endured a bleak marriage to save her son from his treacherous mistress - the sea.
Sebastian Balmain - a strong and fearless youth with much of his father's wayward charm, he mastered the ways of the sea and the hearts of women.
Job McKnight - fierce and forbidding, he was obsessed with the speed of his ships and the purity of his granddaughter, Emily.
Emily McKnight - loved by three men, whose magical, sensual beauty became a weapon she never intended to use.
Garnet Wade - stowaway, mistress, and New Orleans madam, whose love for Sebastian burned on.
They lived a life of hungers and passions as relentless as the raging sea.