The Commodore and the Powder Monkey

Charlie Wheeler is a young girl, disguised as a boy, serving on the Commodore's flagship, in the War of 1812.

She is stalked by a vicious predator who knows her secret, loved by a surgeon's mate who doesn't, and assigned one of the most dangerous jobs on the ship, when the Americans take on the British at the Battle of Plattsburgh.

The action is non-stop and the emotional roller coaster is heart wrenching, in this historically accurate tale of love and war, by award-winning novelist, Mark Barie.

Mark Barie is an award-winning author from upstate New York.Barie is a retired business executive with four adult children. He and his wife, Christine, live full time in Sebring, Florida.His writing career spans more than 20 years but he wrote his first historical romance novel in 2016. His books have won awards from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association, the nationally recognized Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and the Independent Publishers Association, an international organization which sponsors the largest and oldest book awards competition in the world. Each year, more than 5000 authors from the United States, Canada, and Europe, compete for the prestigious medals.Barie is also an accomplished public speaker, having made presentations on America's earliest wars, to service clubs, genealogical societies, and historical groups, all across Florida and upstate New York.If your organization would like an award-winning author as a guest speaker at your next meeting, please contact Barie at: Authormarkbarie@gmail.com