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Pax Gaea is about our hope for the people of the world, and while it may appear this fledgling website has little to do with the concept, it is but a seed.

We are the Carrolls. On July 28, 2006, we sold our home in Wilmington, North Carolina, and embarked on an adventure that carried us to Patzcuaro, nestled in the mountains of central Mexico. Our purpose was to remove ourselves from the familiar, to experience a culture different from our own and to write a novel - in our own mysterious way, to nurture this idea that we have more in common than our differences tend to dictate. In April of 2007 we returned to the states after completing the novel and have settled for the next year or so in Nags Head, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, while we await publication of

No matter how powerful the forces that try to drive us apart, if our will is greater than those forces of division, we can be drawn back together ...

n 1718, one of the most notorious pirates of all time was killed off the coast of North Carolina. History chronicles the last eighteen months of his life and makes stabs at his origins ... but really, who was this man of many names? Where did he come from? And what motivated him to lead this campaign of terror, striking fear

As part of her home schooling project in 2006 and 2007, Abigail studied all of the countries of the world and a series of compiled comprehensive reports and photographs of each nation. Since then we've attempted to diligently maintain these pages which are some of the most timely and comprehensive on the web.

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Thatcher is our novel of historic fiction, coming soon! It explores the fascinating and highly edited history of European colonialism in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, highlighting the pirates and privateers, illegal and legal, who profited from the expanding global trade of the era. In an age of entrepreneuralism, a man may cross the fine line from capitalist to criminal, depending on who is making the definition. Thatcher explores what happens when a man who is merely

trying to make his mark discovers the rules are written against him, and what happens when he decides to change the rules, following his own code in order to achieve his ambitions.

This is not your typical story of a one-dimensional, filthy brigand with a penchant for saying Aaargh! From the ports of England to the colonial New World, from the frozen winter of Moscow to the balmy shores of Madagascar, Thatcher is filled with action, intrigue and interesting characters, intertwining fact with fiction. As for the man himself, a shooting star of mythic proportion, Thatchers Blackbeard possesses a plausible and fantastical pedigree that forms a highly complex, multi-dimensional man who challenges the bounds of his circumstances and leads him to the inevitable fate written by the powers who, then and now, control the civilized world.

into the hearts of all who plied the high seas from the Caribbean to the Atlantic, causing all to tremble at the mention of the name Blackbeard ...

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