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D.W. Jones

D.W. Jones is a historical fiction author with a passion for the past and the people who shaped it. As a Marylander who has spent a lifetime exploring the same waters where the Orion once sailed, he has aimed to bring a new level of local grit and technical accuracy to this period of our history.

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History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard.

It is a guide for those who will live after us.

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On Winter Tides

Before a nation could be born, its tides had to be crossed.


On Winter Tides follows a young seafarer into the perilous waters of the 18th-century Atlantic, where merchant ships, privateers, hidden cargo, and divided loyalties carry the first tremors of revolution.


From the Chesapeake to the crowded free ports of the Caribbean, to the frozen waters of Boston and Marblehead, the novel enters a world of salt air, lantern light, secret trade, and gathering war.


Rich with maritime detail and historical tension, On Winter Tides brings the grit and grandeur of America’s founding era to life through the men who crossed its uncertain seas.

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Coal River Marshes

Coal River Marshes is the second book of a trilogy that began with On Winter Tides. It follows the lives of Barnaby Blackwood and the crew of the merchant ship, Silas Croft.

They must challenge the two most powerful navies in the world—Britain and France, once again at war in the age of Napoleon—even as a new conflict looms across the Atlantic in young America.