title: The Guild
author: Ocean, Suellen
description: Though the flames of the Inquisition no longer burned, the Low Dutch could still feel the heat. With unmatched determination they dove into the chance to begin anew in the New World. Starting out as farmers and fur traders, these ambitious, young men and women become involved in the Guild in order to further their ambitions. But when the Knights Templar of a London guild merge with the Dutch farmers, one man, Leeuw Soeira, descendant of the merchant elite of Amsterdam, must carry the burden of progress. Routing the Lenape Indians from their Atlantic Coast homelands and acquiring slaves for the largest corporation in Europe, Leeuw is but a link in a chain of events that went before and after for the prominent Soeira family. In this historical novel, carving into treacherous wild lands for the early American Dream isn’t who they are but who they become in this new world where traders and trappers collide and collude with nationalistic companies whose ships have just begun to sail and exploit Africa, the West Indies and the Caribbean’s natural resources and people. Their history helped build the great empire of the United States of America. This is where the new rules began. Rules that still echo through the hallways of old hierarchical establishments.