Amélie

A family journal more than three hundred years old reveals romance a journey first love skinnydipping pirates heartbreak and a new world and new friends. A change of heart brings Amélie and her foster brother Gérard back to Sunrise the family plantation to reconcile with Father and Grace. It is time for the two of them to give up their sea adventures with Captain Beauchamp and Black Weasel and for Gérard to attend Oxford University. Amélie will be accompanied by Sandrine the former slave. Sandrine has a secret of her own the answer to which she expects to find in Oxford. What is the mystery of the circle of the stones? Solving it may save their lives. Why Amélie wrote in the third person and how accurately she described the many events she chronicled in her journal are questions not yet answered. Amélie is written for adventurous mature readers with a sense of humor and a liking for purplish prose.