TERRIBLE TESS

by Matthew P. Mayo

Overview

TERRIBLE TESS
A Gritty Press Short Story of Piracy, Deceit & Madness by award-winning author Matthew P. Mayo.

Pirates aren�t the only thing to seize control of the ill-fated vessel�.

Yo-ho-ho, buccaneers! It�s a Gritty Press Short Story of Piratical Proportions! Scurvy-ridden marauders have wrested control of the Tess, locked the captain, crew, and young runaway, Corbin, in the hold to wither and die. The captain�s wife? They keep her above decks. What the ill-bred raiders don�t know is that an unseen evil will soon turn the Tess into a floating hell�.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150479982
Publisher:	Gritty Press
Publication date:	08/14/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	408 KB

About the Author

Matthew P. Mayo's novel, Tucker�s Reckoning, won the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Novel. He has also been a Spur Finalist and a Peacemaker Award Finalist in the Short Fiction category. His stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies, and his many novels include the Westerns Winters' War; Wrong Town; Dead Man's Ranch; Tucker�s Reckoning; The Hunted; and others. Mayo has also written numerous novels under pen names for several popular series of adventure novels.

His non-fiction books include Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears; Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks; Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers; Haunted Old West, and many more. He also collaborated with his wife, photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, on a series of popular coffee-table books: Maine Icons; New Hampshire Icons; and Vermont Icons.

The Mayos run Gritty Press (www.GrittyPress.com) and rove North America full-time in their off-road adventure vehicle in search of hot coffee, tasty whiskey, and high adventure. Stop by Matthew's website (www.MatthewMayo.com) for a chin-wag. And be sure to visit him on Facebook: facebook.com/matthew.p.mayo.