Plundering the Past
Tide of Times, Volume 1
Robert a Tayler
- MR.
- PETRIE,
- HAVE
- YOU
- EVER
- BEEN
- A
- PIRATE?Before
- December
- 2,
- 2002,
- Roger
- Petrie
- would
- have
- laughed
- off
- such
- a
- question
- as
- absurd.
- But,
- although
- he
- and
- his
- older
- brother
- Tom
- were
- sea-faring
- men,
- their
- experiences
- in
- the
- Navy
- and
- Merchant
- Marine
- were
- far
- from
- the
- stuff
- of
- pirate
- legends.That
- was
- before
- their
- cargo
- ship
- MV
- Belvedere
- foundered
- during
- a
- violent
- eastern
- Caribbean
- storm
- that
- fateful
- winter
- night.
- Before
- the
- brothers
- woke
- up
- the
- following
- morning
- to
- find
- the
- Belvedere
- under
- attack
- by
- a
- vessel
- commanded
- by
- a
- bloodthirsty
- rogue
- with
- no
- business
- being
- there.
- Their
- lives
- were
- forever
- changed.
- The
- brothers
- had
- to
- rely
- on
- their
- twenty-first-century
- wits
- and
- technology
- to
- escape
- death,
- both
- at
- the
- hands
- of
- their
- new,
- sadistic
- captain
- and
- crewmates
- and
- the
- governmental
- authorities'
- intent
- on
- their
- destruction.As
- far
- as
- their
- family
- and
- friends
- knew,
- the
- Petrie
- brothers
- had
- been
- lost
- at
- sea,
- and
- the
- Belvedere
- disappeared
- without
- a
- trace.
- So
- people
- were
- shocked
- when,
- through
- a
- bizarre
- set
- of
- circumstances,
- the
- brothers
- were
- found
- and
- rescued
- from
- an
- uncharted
- island
- close
- to
- where
- the
- Belvedere
- had
- vanished
- two
- years
- prior.
- Not
- wanting
- to
- recount
- what
- had
- happened
- to
- them
- in
- those
- lost
- years,
- the
- brothers
- returned
- home.
- Roger
- resolved
- to
- forget
- the
- past
- and
- build
- an
- everyday
- life,
- marrying
- Rebekah,
- moving
- to
- Sarasota,
- FL,
- and
- raising
- two
- children.
- Tom
- also
- moved
- to
- Sarasota
- to
- be
- near
- Roger's
- family
- and
- start
- a
- new
- chapter
- in
- their
- lives.The
- past
- proved
- more
- challenging
- to
- ignore
- than
- Roger
- imagined.
- His
- new
- wife
- and
- her
- friends
- were
- mystified
- as
- evidence—ancient
- weapons,
- valuable
- coins,
- names
- of
- ships,
- and
- captains
- long
- since
- vanished—kept
- surfacing.
- As
- the
- evidence
- mounts,
- Rebekah
- is
- left
- to
- wonder;
- did
- something
- unbelievable
- happen
- to
- her
- husband
- and
- his
- brother
- after
- their
- ship
- was
- lost?And
- can
- Roger
- deflect
- her
- suspicions
- without
- destroying
- his
- family
- and
- driving
- himself insane?
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