The Logbooks of Admiral Jake

Matey and Buck have barely escaped the evening raid only to find themselves lost and alone somewhere north of their settlement and nearer the River of Dreams than they realized. Just when all was feeling safer, new dangers arise from all sides and the flight to freedom resumes. Problems abound while answers become cloudy.

Gunther and his wife, Dasong, pioneered their isolated homestead north of the River of Dreams far below King's Harbor in the north and far enough northward from the pioneer settlements in the south. It's just what they wanted - peace and quiet in a forest - and all the time in the world to build their simple life. However, when Gunther awakens early to check his fishing nets he discovers trouble has arrived and nothing will ever be the same again.

The Logbooks of Admiral Jake begins in a forest of frenzied flight. Matey, her family, and others from the pioneer settlement must do all they can to flee the marauding pirates, but things do not go well. After a horrific sequence of events, 17-year old Matey and her 12-year old brother, Buck, must find their way back to safety and somehow find a way to move on. But the difficulties do not cease, nor is the direction easy to discern, nor are the souls they encounter in all ways familiar. Whether flyers or dwarfs, pirates or double-realm rovers, storytellers, or others, all are in various places of conflict and confusion. Matey must find out what side she is really on, to what end must she aim, is triumph even possible, and will it really make any difference in the end?