WINDS OF FURY Brief narrative synopsis outline The WINDS of FURY Series is an 18th century sailor's tale of adventurous suspense and intrigue. It is a story of a young German lad, Heinrich Drope, born of aristocratic lineage. He becomes entangled in fateful circumstances while striving to establish his own merchant shipping business far from the lavish lifestyle he was born into. Voyages filled with unforeseen dangers await him and his crew over every horizon. Prompted by ardent dreams to be successful by hard work, he and his handpicked crew are fatefully destined to face inhospitable ordeals that take them into seas of tribulation and combative peril on the high seas. Each episode along their life's route is filled with inevitable distress, provocation, and enmity as they are hounded by pirates and privateers who are intent to rob them of their cargo and ship, looking to collect on a bounty set by the British. The disparaging bounty on their heads and subsequent ill-repute originated from a foul deed caused by British naval vessels, which attempted to board their schooner, the See Wolf, by force. Heinrich refused the British order to heave to and swiftly fled the scene after a brief damning altercation. The British warrant for their capture hangs over the crew's heads in the navy's quest to settle the old score. Committed to forge ahead with his business plans in spite of traumatic adversity, he and his crew are pitted against disparaging odds and develop creative ways to defend themselves, while still intent on their endeavor as honest merchant seamen. At every turn in his pursuit to succeed in his business plans he is faced with desperation and leads to overcoming the "winds of fury" as he rides the wild crest of seas frothing alive with hideous dread of sea battles against enemy ships. The turbulent years of being constantly hunted by the British and privateers become too insufferable. After many years with numerous cargoes procured and sold som