Docklands, Amsterdam 1636. A dynasty in peril. No txt, no net, no TV, just one inescapable deadline.
The fortunes of the trading House of Windjammer are inextricably tied to their ships. And when the ship Sirius goes down, the House is dragged down with it. At the age of sixteen Adam Windjammer is forced to become a man as his family is torn apart round his ears.
Trying to protect his mother and his sisters from the predatory business clutches of the banker Van Helsen, and also from his inept and greedy uncle Augustus, Adam feels besieged on all sides. Who can help him now his father is gone? Adam feels all too hard the weighty burden of the Windjammer.
