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"The best historical fiction I've read since Hilary Mantel."

Exploration — Book One of The Stanfield Chronicles

Before New England existed, it was a conspiracy — a prize fought over by kings, merchants, and spies. This is the story of the boy who got too close to the truth.

In 1620, the Mayflower sailed for the Hudson River. It never got there. History has never adequately explained why.

Isaac Stanfield knows why — because he was there. Seven years earlier, a fire he never meant to start turned him into a fugitive, fleeing England on a merchant ship. What should have ended his story instead pulled him into the center of one: the secret decade-long scramble to establish New England before rival powers could. As Isaac rises from ship's boy to confidant of the men engineering New England's birth, he witnesses — and survives — the piracy, betrayal, and violence behind a voyage to escape religious persecution that was never as simple as history remembers.

It's also a love story: one that costs him everything he thought he understood about loyalty and home.

David Tory was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, and built his first career far from the storytelling world - in software. He moved to London in 1962 to become a programmer, co-founded a UK software distribution company later acquired by Computer Associates, and relocated to the United States in 1980 to take on senior leadership at CA in New York. In 1988, he became CEO of a Boston-based software company, retiring in 1995. He went on to found the Essex County Community Foundation in 1999, leading it until his retirement in 2011.It was a chance discovery- reading Nathaniel Philbrick's The Mayflower - that set David on an unexpected path. Struck by a series of historical coincidences the record never quite explained, he began researching the founding of New England in earnest, initially intending to write an academic thesis. He was ultimately persuaded that the real story deserved a different form: historical fiction, rich enough to bring overlooked people and unresolved conjectures to life in a way scholarship alone could not.The result is The Stanfield Chronicles, a trilogy that follows Isaac Stanfield - fugitive, sailor, spy, and eventually confidant to the men secretly engineering New England's founding - through the journal he leaves behind. David lives in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, with his wife, not far from the New England coastline his novels bring to life.