The Pioneer Cruise Ship's Secret

About this book:

A governess flees London in 1844 with a carpetbag of stolen ledgers and a ticket aboard the *Pioneer*—the world's first luxury cruise ship, bound for the Mediterranean under the guise of a pleasure tour. But Clara Harvey knows the truth: the ship's gilded saloons conceal a covert mission orchestrated by the most powerful men in the Foreign Office, and the coordinates in Lord Sterling's secret correspondence point to a rendezvous in the deep waters off Spain, where something far heavier than luggage waits in the hold.

One hundred eighty years later, marine archaeologist Isobel Reis has found the wreck. Her sonar reveals the *Pioneer* split open on the floor of the Alboran Trench, her experimental iron hull guarding a payload that defies explanation—and a cipher left behind by a woman who refused to disappear. But Isobel's discovery has triggered a response. A vessel with no identifier is bearing down on her position at flank speed, and the secrets Clara Harvey died to protect are about to surface whether the world is ready or not.

From the fog-bound streets of Victorian London to the crushing depths of the Mediterranean, *The Pioneer Cruise Ship's Secret* weaves a dual-timeline thriller where historical conspiracy meets modern-day danger. Two women, separated by centuries, connected by a ship that was never meant to be found—and a truth powerful enough to rewrite history.