The Young Adult novel "Ship of Spies: The Sea Lord Chronicles" continues the adventures of Alexander Hope, an ensign in the Royal Navy during an alternative history of the Napoleonic Wars in the Age of Sail. Three weeks after Alexander single-handedly sinks three attacking Napoleonist ships, he awakens in a strange room to find that an assassin is about to stab him. He narrowly escapes by gryphon to the vast estate of his friend, Lord Parkington...