Back High Seas Series: The Trader
Prologue: Joe Turner had been an officer in the United States Navy during the war and had been released from service in 1921. He had taken a job with the electric company and, somehow had convinced himself that he could settle down at a job, marry a young woman and they had a boy, they named Toby. It was not a good situation and Joe preferred other men and he could not relate to his wife, although he loved Toby dearly. Joe and his wife, Melissa, fought bitterly and, one day, Joe came home to find the house empty. Both Melissa and Toby were gone. He searched for them for two years, never finding even a trace. Joe resigned himself to never seeing his son, Toby, again and he tried to go on with his life. He just couldn't, he had saved his money and his father had left him a considerable legacy, so he quit his job and headed for Los Angeles. There, he saw an advertisement in the paper for some small ships being auctioned off by the Navy, and, out of curiosity, he went to Long Beach to see what was being sold.
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