Buying Heaven

1711. The Saint Joseph leaves Dublin bound for Newfoundland and then Cádiz, carrying a crew of English and Irish sailors running from war, debt, and the wreckage of their pasts. Among them is Sean Hora, the son of a respected Irish merchant, who dreams not of fortune, but of returning home to Ireland and studying medicine. At sea, mercy is scarce. In waters haunted by privateers and shifting loyalties, one encounter can decide a man’s fate. When the Canarian corsair Amaro Pargo fixes his sights on the Saint Joseph, what should be a lawful capture begins to look dangerously like piracy. Then a royal passport vanishes, and with it the fragile certainty on which honour, justice and survival depend. Inspired by true events, Buying Heaven is a historical novel of ships, taverns, trials and ambition, where men may buy almost anything—except a place in heaven.