Amelie

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 Amelie and her foster brother, Gerard, 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 Gerard to attend Oxford University. Amelie 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 Amelie wrote in the third person, and how accurately she described the many events she chronicled in her journal, are questions not yet answered. "Amelie" is written for adventurous mature readers with a sense of humor and a liking for purplish prose.