Out Front the Following Sea

Written by Leah Angstman

Narrated by Senn Annis

Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman’s survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned—it is a death sentence. At the onset of King William’s War between French and English settlers in 1689 New England, Ruth Miner is accused of witchcraft for the murder of her parents and must flee the brutality of her town. She stows away on the ship of the only other person who knows her innocence: an audacious sailor—Owen—bound to her by years of attraction, friendship, and shared secrets. But when Owen’s French ancestry finds him at odds with a violent English commander, the turmoil becomes life-or-death for the sailor, the headstrong Ruth, and the cast of Quakers, Pequot Indians, soldiers, highwaymen, and townsfolk dragged into the fray. Now Ruth must choose between sending Owen to the gallows or keeping her own neck from the noose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Everand Productions
• Release date: Feb 13, 2024
• ISBN: 9781094463230

Leah Angstman

Leah Angstman is the author of the historical novel of 17th-century New England, OUT FRONT THE FOLLOWING SEA (Regal House, 2022), the novel of the French Revolution, FALCON IN THE DIVE (Regal House, 2024), and the collection of short histories, SHOOT THE HORSES FIRST (Kernpunkt, 2023). She serves as executive editor for Alternating Current Press and The Coil online magazine, and her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and The Nashville Review. She's recently been the winner of the Shorts Award for Americana Fiction and a finalist for the Colorado Independent Publishers Association Book Awards, Laramie Book Award, Chaucer Book Award, Eric Hoffer Book Award, National Indie Excellence Award, Da Vinci Eye Award, Clue Book Award, Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, Cowles Book Prize, and Able Muse Book Award; a semifinalist for the Goethe Book Award; and longlisted for the Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Leah serves as an appointed government-advisory vice chair of a Colorado historical commission and an appointed liaison to a Colorado historic preservation government-advisory committee. You can find her online at leahangstman.com and on social media as @leahangstman.