Pirates or Patriots

Ephraim Bradford was seventeen years old in the spring of 1814 when he and his two brothers flee from the British Army to begin new lives in America. When their ship is commandeered by privateers Ephraim becomes part of the pirate empire of Captain Jean Lafitte. Soon the young Englishman, a merchant by training, is selling Lafitte’s stolen goods on the streets of New Orleans.
A thousand miles away in the bustling city of Baltimore, Charlotte Fuller reluctantly marries a swindler twice her age. When her new husband is suddenly killed she is left stranded penniless in Crescent City. Desperate and near death, the only work she can find is in a Bourbon Street bordello.
Pirates or Patriots follows a young British merchant from the cold fields of Shropshire England to the warm waters of the Mississippi delta and a young farm girl from the sunny shores of the Chesapeake Bay to the gritty underbelly of the French Quarter. On a warm summer afternoon the two fall in love only to be torn apart by their secret lives and the looming Battle of New Orleans.