Stars on the sea

Mason was a competent fiction novelist of the inter-war period, and did produce a number of tales set in the early days of the American War of ndependence. Tim Bennet, an honest privateersman falls in with Desire Harmony, pregnant due to her consorting with a British Officer. The American Navy is organized as an iimortant historical background to this romantic and gory tale. The matter of slavery is shown as the brutality it was.