The Sun Is My Undoing - Flood, Bk 1 Author:Marguerite Steen The death of the richest man in Bristol, in the great days of sailing ships, caused a scandal that was to last for a hundred years. "It sent a prodigious fortune rolling about the globe...it enriched a rogue, impoverished a virtuous family, and lost a girl her lover... it hummed across the high seas, it rustled in secret chambers, it was mu... more »mbled across council tables... "
As it spread through time and space and the lives of men and women daring and adventure went with it. The Sun Is My Undoing is a story on the heroic scale, a chronicle that lifts the reader out of his own world and sweeps him on breathlessly. The story sets sail from Bristol when young Matthew Flood, driven from the arms of his bride-to-be to afterdeck of an African slaver embarks on a journey that is to cover half the globe and tangle the destinies of generations unborn. The ports it touches are the reeking coast of Africa, fair Barbados, gay and scheming Cuba, the Barbary haunts of pirates, the places of Seville and Madrid, the returning at last to the stately homes of England.
Masses become slaves in the telling of this tale and a slave becomes the mother of a proud race. From it one comes to know not only how Englishmen lived in the days when privateers fitted out in Bristol harbor: one enjoys the graces of life in Creole Havana, recoils from the suave brutality of hidalgo Spain, pants in the unlivable African jungle where men somehow continue to live.
The Sun Is My Undoing is the story of one undying love and a dozen interwoven tales of ambition and intrigue. It is a story with a will of its own and it can neither be put aside nor soon forgotten.« less