{"product_id":"the-14th-colony-the-struggles-of-a-young-frenchman-to-reach-the-louisiana-colony-paperback","title":"THE 14th COLONY: The Struggles of a Young Frenchman to Reach the Louisiana Colony - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIntergrative Ink\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKent Mayeux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrance, 1720. One stolen document. One ruined life. One way out.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre Mayeux has done nothing wrong. That will not save him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has a comfortable home on his father's tax farm in northern France and Simone, the sharecropper's daughter who shares his bed and his secrets. Then Simone robs a passing carriage and takes the hidden receipt book of Antoine Patin - proof that one of France's most powerful tax farmers is stealing from the Crown. The Royal Guard comes for Pierre, not her. Convicted of a crime he did not commit, he is sentenced to three years as an engagé, bound for John Law's wilderness concession at the Arkansas Post in the Louisiana colony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis family escorts him to La Rochelle to watch him go. On the docks he meets Adrien, who boards La Profond not in chains but by choice. And somewhere between the gangplank and open water, he meets Marie Françoise Sellier - crossing to a country she has never seen, for reasons she will not explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree months of open ocean follow. Storms, sickness, hunger, and a hurricane that drives the ship to the edge of survival. And something none of them planned for: love, taking root in the least likely place on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen La Profond finally limps into Nouveau Biloxi, Pierre steps ashore into a raw and unforgiving new world - carrying a hope he never expected to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat he does not know is that Simone, back in France, is carrying something too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased on true events.\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre Mayeux's name survives in the colonial archives of French Louisiana: a passenger landed at Nouveau Biloxi in September 1720, a witness on a marriage certificate in New Orleans, an entry in the census rolls. This is his story, reconstructed from the record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Outlander, Pachinko, and The Name of the Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook One of The 14th Colony series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE 14TH COLONY - a four-book saga, 1720 to 1803\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook One: \u003ci\u003eThe Struggles of a Young Frenchman to Reach the Louisiana Colony (1720)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Two: \u003ci\u003eThe Wilderness Takes Root\u003c\/i\u003e (1720-1729)\u003cbr\u003eBook Three: \u003ci\u003eThe Ground That Holds\u003c\/i\u003e (1729-1769)\u003cbr\u003eBook Four: \u003ci\u003eWhat the River Keeps\u003c\/i\u003e (1769-1803)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBooks One and Two are available now. Books Three and Four are written and forthcoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Fiction Meets Family History in Mayeux's Louisiana Saga\"\u003c\/i\u003e - The Marksville Weekly News \/ Bunkie Record\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 174\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49377609253003,"sku":"9780982364956","price":19.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/Oj1LLkh6jw9780982364956.webp?v=1789624338","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-14th-colony-the-struggles-of-a-young-frenchman-to-reach-the-louisiana-colony-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}