the ReproBate saga
Books I – XVII
An historically accurate fictional series about the life and times of a Confederate blockade runner, his ship, his life and his love.
Best Civil War Novels by
S.L. Kotar and J. E. Gessler
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Book I Beneath the Rose
Confederate blockade runner, gambler and captain, Rudy Blake finds danger, intrigue, conspiracy and romance in this near fatal adventure.
Book II skull and cRossBones
Confederate blockade runners, Rudy and Rose, sail for England. The voyage offers opportunity for teaching shipcraft, armament and the nuances of sailing.
Book III Redefining Bastions
Civil War Captain of the blockade schooner ReproBate returns to the war torn South. While there he has an adventure filled flashback with tragic consequences.
Book IV thickeR than Blood
An historically accurate adventure spanning British High Society, sailing across the Atlantic, safely evading a coastal blockade in war torn South, then back again to England.
Book V: prioR Battles
This historically accurate flashback, carries hope and expectation, misery and failure; a sea voyage and the birth of San Francisco; a friend, many enemies and a story that left scars physically and mentally, for life.
Book VI : Requited Blasphemy
The historical fiction novel begins as the Federal Army was on Atlanta ‘s doorstep. The sights of war everywhere were too much for the blockade runner to remain neutral any longer.
Book VII: the waR Between
Historically accurate fiction brings the first taste of what war really means: deprivation, fear, loss, death and a despair deeper than any ever experienced. Without prospects of hope, and little more chance of staying alive, Private Blake waits out the end of the terrible and tragic War Between the States.
Book VIII: to Richmond or Bust
Accurate Historical fiction. Rudy joined the Confederate army to die but he did not. After the final degradation of surrender, Rudy prepares himself for the greatest and most perilous journey of his life: across the Atlantic to England and Rose Theodore.
Book IX : carRying Battlescars
Accurate historical fiction The Civil War had broken the man both physically and mentally. If he was to live again, his body and mind must be healed.
Book X: RamBlings
Historical fiction. This novel brings the dangerous life as a gambler card shark on Mississippi river steamers in all its glory and grime.
Book XI Retrieving Ballast
Pre-Civil War historical fiction of life as a riverboat gambler, complex friendships and transformation from seaman to man about town.
Book XII : captain’s RB
Historical Fiction. A sea adventure begun to heal a broken man, turns instead to a epic disaster which falls to Rose to either save or die.
Book XIII: wondeRous Backdrops
Historical fiction. Return for a fresh start to the post Civil War South, where reconstruction had not gone the way either had hoped.
Book XIV: ReproBate
Historical fiction. Post Civil War Charleston was under Federal martial law, creating unlikely friends plotting against a common enemy, with life or death consequences.
time and tRouBle: Book 15
Historical fiction. A turn of events releases Rudy from certain execution, leaving the door open to begin fleecing those eager for the old South to return.
Book XVI The Road Back
Book XVI:
The Road Back
by: Kotar/Gessler
Historical fiction novel. This is Rose’s story from childhood in Manhattan, to the theatre district, and so much more. She comes to the end of it with one realization: this time, she did not travel alone.
Book XVII oveR the Brink
Book XVII:
oveR the Brink
by: Kotar/Gessler
Historical Fiction novel. Rudy and Rose relive their past while recovering from injuries, before starting a new journey.