Rope Eater

When Brendan Kane accepts a stranger’s offer of work--two years on a ship departing the following morning--the nature of the journey isn''t divulged. It matters not, though, for Kane is directionless himself, having just witnessed the Civil War''s horrors only to return North with nothing but the clothes on his back and as many dead soldiers'' letters as he could carry in his pockets.
Aboard the m...