Raised beneath the shadow of empire and hardened by the brutality of naval life, Audain discovers that freedom carries its own price. What begins as loyalty between two men gradually becomes a dangerous struggle over power, slavery, betrayal, and the meaning of liberty itself.
Set across the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Caribbean, The Predecessor is historical fiction inspired by the disputed legend of Reverend John Audain—the man remembered as the Pirate Parson.