Wales, 1608.

One English lock costs Rhys ap Hywel his home, his inheritance, and the future he believed was his. Virginia offers a desperate alternative: cross the ocean, survive the wilderness, and earn a piece of ground no one can take from him.

Then Margaret Hughes and her sharp-witted cousin Elin step into his path.

Margaret has learned that protection always carries a price. Rhys wants no dependents, no distractions, and certainly no woman who can see through his silence. But the road to the coast is dangerous, passage aboard the Mary and Margaret is worse, and survival forces the three into an uneasy alliance.

As mistrust gives way to loyalty, the distance between Rhys and Margaret becomes harder to maintain—and far more dangerous to cross.

Storms, hunger, violence, and betrayal strip away every promise of the New World. At James Fort, where lives are expendable and names can vanish without a trace, Rhys and Margaret must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for freedom—and whether the future they crossed an ocean to claim can be built without each other.

A home can be taken. A name can be erased. But some people refuse to disappear.

The Crossing is Book One of Blood of the Crossing, a sweeping historical-fiction saga of survival, belonging, slow-burning romance, and the ordinary people history tried to forget.