Chasing Blackbeard

by Steven Davis

Chasing Blackbeard is the coming-of-age story of a cabin boy and scribe that decides to dedicate life and limb to cover the story of history’s most feared name in piracy. The maniacal Edward Teach leads a life filled with self-destruction, demonic pacts, and drug abuse. Can Eli Ellis be enough to save this larger-than-life character?

Chasing Blackbeard, while fiction, was written with breathtaking historical accuracy. This is a story of love, drug abuse, jealousy, and eventually an unseen betrayal that will leave you rereading to find clues you may have missed throughout the story.

Anyone that has ever enjoyed reading and learning about Blackbeard, piracy or Eastern North Carolina will thoroughly enjoy this piece.

Beginning in what is now The Bath Area of Eastern North Carolina, this story shows the incredible struggle and lifestyle of a cabin boy and scribe serving under Edward Teach, his perspective on his piratical career, and how his lifestyle eventually would lead to his downfall off the shores of Ocracoke.

Chasing Blackbeard is part of a larger set of Historical Fiction pieces called The Carolina Series. I hope you all will follow along on all of these incredible journeys.

159 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 22, 2018

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