The books
The Making Way series
Making Way is a two-volume novel set during the American Revolution. It follows a mixed group of people, young and old, experienced and green, who are swept up in the turmoil of the era and bound together by it.
Making Way · I
Sailing into the Revolutionary Storm
Volume I · Available now
Sailing into the Revolutionary Storm
A group of aimless young people on the New England waterfront are struggling to get by when a strange chain of events puts a formidable schooner, the COMMERCE, in their hands. Unaware of the rebellion stirring around them, they drift into conflict with the British and end up playing a part in the Revolution without meaning to.
Volume II · Available now
The Revolutionary Storm Rages
With no way back, the crew renames their ship the PYGG and joins the rebellion as privateers. New and unlikely recruits come aboard, and they survive by stealth, ingenuity and unusual tactics.
Making Way · II
The Revolutionary Storm Rages
A story set in the past that speaks to the present
A responsible view of history
The story shows colonial America from the waterfront rather than the statehouse, at a time when borders, laws, money and loyalties were all uncertain.
A crew of every kind
The crew includes young and old, men and women, seasoned sailors and landlubbers. Each of them faces a challenge that readers today will recognize.
Meet the crewLessons for today
The author draws 16 life lessons from the story, on subjects such as trust, ownership, vision and the true cost of conflict.
Read the lessons