The Lake War: Kinkaid with the Inland Fleet (Jonathan Kinkaid Series)
I thought "The Treasure Ship" would be my last Kinkaid tale, especially since the war ends with that adventure, but then some of my readers started asking for "More Kinkaid, please!" so when I started scouting around for another Kinkaid story I recalled that one of my all-time favorite books, "Rabble in Arms" by Kenneth Roberts, was about Benedict Arnold's building of an inland fleet on Lake Champlain. It was my great introduction to historical fiction and seemed a perfect vehicle for Kinkaid. It presented its own special problems, however, one being that since this was a very early story in the American Revolution it had to be a prequel. I also realize that most people love the sea-going part of Kinkaid's adventures, and this took place on a lake. A very large lake, however, but a lake nontheless, so I hope there is enough water-borne adventure to satisfy that yearning. In truth I am particularly proud of the way I wrote about Kinkaid's land journey up to the lake. Hope you enjoy. I also enjoyed adding the Indians in this book, although my epic adventure "Sunset of the Iroquois" covers that fascination in depth and perhaps the reader might take a look at it now that you've read all the Kinkaid books.