A follow-up novel to M"Eg:
Fate is godmother of London-born Richard Wright, a survivor of 1610 London's wild and wicked streets until orphan-snatchers grab and sell him to the Virginia Company
Fate gifted 1600's London-born Richard Wright with a quick wit, fast hands, and devoted parentage. Fate denied the teenager a woman's love in the Old World and in the New World.
Orphaned at twelve after losing his cherished mum to a witch-hunter's fiery stake, Richard Wright perfects his survival skills on London's overloaded, overstressed streets where few orphans live past puberty.
Hope of a life with his first love is crushed when the Virginia Company's orphan hunters snatch and then dispatch the teenager on a ship bound for Fort James as an indentured captive in the New World, where life is short.
Enamored by the boy, Fate wants Richard for herself. She intercedes: Hurricanes wreck the ship, saving Richard from indenture, but throwing him into the New World's Mohawk ferocity, where death looms behind every tree. Survival skills sharpened on London's treacherous streets and a da's weaponry training enable the stranded youth to deflect danger in the wild-arse land.
Fate plays with her favorite boy: She hands him a second love, an Iroquoian princess, who becomes his wife and comrade in arms, battling harsh elements and unforgiving European and native enemies. Fate denies Richard his second love: Captured by the Fort James English for alleged treason and exiled to a certain death, he is separated from his wife never to recapture the love they shared, losing her to the Iroquoian war cry.
Fate has become Richard's new wife; in return, she will raise him to a warrior's glory in the New World. She thrusts him into an adventurer's hair-raising life, protecting him with a lover's hand. Four years in the wilderness has molded the orphan boy into a tough-minded new world combatant, slayer of Mohawk, friend of their ageless foe, the Algonquin. Having proven his bravery and skill on savages' battlefields, Algonquin leaders, seek his prowess.
Fate plots his path into New Spain and New France and the western waterway to China where he become the first white man, albeit under French authority, to explore the Missouri River to it headwaters. A wild life in Europe and wilder one in the New World has matured London's orphan boy fast, developing him into the soldier he wanted to be in England, albeit a savage warrior.
Captain General Samuel Champlain of Nouveau France in Quebec, charmed by the boy's prowess and wit, sends him back to his beloved London where Fate provides him a path into the Royal Army.
M'Eg's Wild-Arse New World dramatizes an English youth's path to becoming the New World's unparalleled white warrior, and once back in England, an acclaimed officer in the service of newly-anointed King Charles I. Fate, jealous of the European ladies smitten by Richard's prowess will orchestrate his return to the New World.