Trevannock: Crossing-kin

In 1782 the slave ships sail, as they have for a hundred and sixty years - but the empire that owns them is African, and the cargo is white.**

Elias Hollowell is a Cornish fisherman in an occupied land of permits, rationed bread, and a forbidden faith. He has already buried his wife. When the Adunbi Imperium's raiders come for his parish at first light, he gets his children to the cliff path - and is taken himself: bound, renamed on a clerk's ledger, and carried down into the hold of a ship ...