The Divine Wind

By: James Philip

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Divine Wind is the fifteenth book in the New England Series set in an alternative timeline in which George Washington’s Continental Army was wiped out at the Battle of Long Island in 1776, the American Revolution failed and New England in the latter half of the 20th Century is still part of the British Empire....

In the Pacific the Royal Navy has turned the tide but the bloody battle for the Marianas rages unabated.

In Japan, confronted by the might of the global British Empire mobilising for total war, the Emperor and his military men begin to consider the unthinkable.

In New England – a great sleeping giant for so long – the West and the entirety of the North American continent is finally opening up as it factories and resources fuel the war effort.

In England the government wrestles with the question of how to subdue the Empire of Japan without destabilising the existing world order at the very time the march of technology is accelerating change in every sphere of life.

One prime minister if preoccupied with waging war; one of his predecessors is intent on making mischief and plotting his comeback.

And what of Kate Lincoln, newly widowed? She and her children are in England with Abe's two surviving brothers; her hopes set upon a new life far, far away from the maelstrom of war and the prejudice that had blighted her life in New England.

What of Melody dipping her toe in local colonial politics, and what of her husband, Paul, his career seemingly ended by the lies of a traitor?

And how will the injustice of Sam and Amelia Henry's potentially ruinous legal suit against predatory real estate developers in the Crown Colony of Virginia, resolve itself before the House of Lords in England in a test of the legality of 300-year-old racist statutes still influencing the lives of modern New Englanders, and potentially, peoples all around the Empire?

All the while, back in the Pacific the fleet gathers, growing by the day, bolstered by massive shipbuilding programs commenced at the outset of the Mexican War.

The Divine Wind is about to blow against the forces of the Empire upon which the Sun never sets; and when it does how will the British react?

As each side gathers its strength for what both know will be the final battle; who will strike first?

And finally, what secret can a tropical island relegated to the backwaters of the war hold> A secret that might one day turn the lives of more than one of our characters upside down?

Finishes? and New Avenues

It seems that a lot of loose stories were finished or at least tied up. And then there some things pop up at the end that will make for future issues. Plus, there are new story avenues that start in this book.