The Covert Buccaneer

<p><strong>EDITOR'S PICK (<em>Booklife Publishers Weekly</em>)</strong></p><p><strong>Recommended on <em>KIRKUS REVIEWS</em> FICTION alongside<em> The Nightingale</em> and <em>The Women </em></strong></p><p><strong>Featured in the <em>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>San Francisco. Two women. Two Centuries. One hidden diary with explosive truths. </strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Based on true characters and events.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With a diary beginning in 1867 at age thirteen Theodora Teddy Ellis defies gender norms as a miner suffragist and real estate pioneer. Over a hundred years later climate-migrant attorney and single special-needs mother Georgina Ellie Benvenuto discovers Teddy's long-hidden diary - along with an heirloom that could change everything.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From escaping the Great Chicago Fire to prospecting in the untamed Alaska wilderness to rebuilding post-earthquake San Francisco--Teddy's covert past helps Ellie navigate her own fault lines more than a century later.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Blending real legal cases emotional resilience intergenerational mystery and unconventional love stories this richly researched novel explores climate justice gender nonconformity caregiver discrimination the immigrant experience and unsung Indigenous voices.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>The Covert Buccaneer</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a celebration of resilience legacy and what we might become when we dare to follow the women who came before us.</span></p>