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)><em>The Covert Buccaneer</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a dual-timeline women's historical fiction family saga and legal drama set in San Francisco linking two extraordinary women separated by a century.</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 special needs mother Georgina Ellie Benvenuto discovers Teddy's long-hidden diary--along with an heirloom that might 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.</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 based on real people and events 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>