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Renegades of the Revolution 1775, Boston Harbor. James Sparhawk, Master and Commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. The ship he?s boarded is carrying ammunition and gold into a country on the knife?s edge of war. His duty is to confiscate the cargo, impound the vessel and seize the crew. Then one of the ship?s boys turns out to be a girl with a pistol and dead-shot aim, and Sparhawk finds himself held hostage aboard a Rebel privateer.
About the Author
A native of Bergenfield, New Jersey, Donna graduated from Yale with a degree in Classics and Art History. For many years she managed architecture and interpretation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, and wrote and directed the Witch City's most popular Halloween theater festival, Eerie Events. She later earned an MFA in film production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Donna has been a sorority house mother, a Disney/ABC Television Writing Fellow, a WGA Writer's Access Project Honoree, and a writer on the ABC primetime drama, Cupid.
The director of several award-winning short films, her most recent project, The Night Caller, aired on WNET Channel 13 and was featured on Ain't It Cool News. Her screenwriting credits include episodes of the Disney XD animated series, Tron: Uprising; WGN's historical drama, Salem; and Hallmark's, The Good Witch. Currently she is a producer on the forthcoming Netflix drama, Sabrina.
Donna is the author of four highly acclaimed historical novels from Penguin New American Library and four urban fantasy novels from Pocket, writing as DL McDermott. Her short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Albedo One.
She is married with two cats and divides her time between Salem and Los Angeles.
You can visit Donna at www.donnathorland.com.
