Transfer Day

In 1916, after losing her parents in a disastrous railway accident along the Panama Canal, Abigail Maduro arrives in the Danish West Indies to live with her Aunt Esther, a bad tempered spinster, and her houseful of eccentric servants. Despite the island's veneer of tranquility, St. Thomas is a hotbed of German spies and saboteurs who are using their Hamburg-America steamers to aid the Kaiser's war effort.



When a mysterious stranger suddenly appears in town, Abigail is unwittingly drawn into the conflict. In the erudite and handsome Erich Seibold, Abigail finds the friendship and love she has been seeking, even after she learns that Erich is a deserter from a German U-boat. But their idyllic interlude comes to a crashing halt when the island's German consul also discovers Erich's true identity, and blackmails him into joining his spy ring. After a melee involving the Danish governor, Erich is imprisoned and only Abigail can save him. Action and adventure abound in this colorful historical novel that brings to life a fading West Indian sugar colony in the last days of Danish rule.