Michael Rothery

What if the centuries between life and death were missing… and you were the proof?Joseph William Horne was born in Devonshire in 1739, the son of a country surgeon, educated in the brutal realities of eighteenth‑century medicine and the unforgiving logic of the Enlightenment. His life should be known only to parish records and fading archives.Instead, he is found alive in 1952.As Joseph recoun...

Between Two Worlds: An Odyssey BeginsCharlie Barley is adrift—literally and figuratively. Once a Royal Navy man, now a castaway on the sleepy island of Petit St Louis, he’s haunted by heartbreak and the bottle, drifting through sun-bleached days and rum-soaked nights. But when a young journalist arrives, chasing the legend of the mysterious Splitwind, Charlie’s world is upended. What begins ...

Some places never forget.And some stories refuse to stay buried.Thirty years ago, young sailor Vincent Brown went ashore on a remote South Atlantic island with his shipmates, Frank and Nobbay. What should have been an unremarkable visit left him instead with a memory he could never explain: two young girls, a moment of strange joy, and whispers carried on the wind.Now, Vincent returns to the islan...

When everything familiar is taken from her, Rosie Winterbourne does the only thing she knows how to do: she goes to sea.A gifted naval sailor with a fierce will to endure, Rosie is already fractured by loss when her life begins to unravel—her career derailed, her loyalties tested, and her sense of reality itself called into question. Haunted by memory, driven by guilt, and carrying a secret she ...

Some people move tourists.Some people move terrorists.Rosie Winterbourne is a former Royal Navy NCO with an unusual skill set: she speaks Arabic, remembers everything she has ever seen, and sails alone with absolute confidence. When a covert British intelligence unit recruits her to quietly observe yacht traffic in Gibraltar, Rosie expects to find drug runners and people‑smugglers.What she finds...

How far would you go to save a friend—if the people trying to stop you are on your own side?When British intelligence trainee Rosie Winterbourne learns that her closest friend, yacht skipper Michael McCaffey, has been kidnapped by a Daesh splinter group in Libya, she makes a choice that will change her life forever.She disobeys orders.She disappears.And she goes in alone.Armed with her gift for ...

A jewel stolen from legend. A curse that never left the sea.In 800 BCE, a slaver seizes a gold pendant said to be a gift from King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba—and the ocean answers with a storm that swallows ship, crew, and treasure alike.Nearly three thousand years later, Royal Navy petty officer Patrick Redman is on leave in Mombasa when a routine dive turns into a nightmare: a squall erupts...

Return to Saba: search for the Eye is the gripping continuation of The Eye of Saba tale—where a lost relic, a fabricated murder case, and a brutal countdown collide.Patrick Redman thought he’d escaped Kenya for good. Haunted by guilt and a past he can’t outrun, he returns in secret to the coast where it all began—only to discover the nightmare has grown darker. Hannelore Friedmann and her ...

A rogue ex‑operative. A hijacked yacht with hostages. A smuggling route that leads straight into Russia.After losing her dream job at Firegate, Rosie Winterbourne rebuilds her life inside Michael’s yacht brokerage—launching a new enterprise dedicated to tracking down stolen boats. It should be clean work. Insurance cases. Paper trails. Recoveries.Then Sir Tamlyn Battersby’s £2m yacht is t...