Title In This Collection Moneylenders Daughter The House of Windjammer The Street of Knives III The Street of Knives III Adam & Jade are approaching seventeen Both have lost fathers & both have found themselves shouldering huge responsibility Adam is running Quadrant Shipping & Trading Company while Jade has successfully taken on her fathers moneylending business They have shown themselves capable & bright but when it comes to working together their pride takes over tempers flare & neither will budge Then Adam is approached with a lucrative but shadowy proposition Their relationship in tatters Moneylenders Daughter Its 1637 Almost a year has passed since the House of Windjammer was torn apart by death & debt Adam Windjammer is aboard the Draco in search of a lost fleet struggling to win back his familys honour & fortune unaware that events back in Amsterdam are overtaking him From the violent shores of the Americas to the dark heart of Amsterdam & on into the marshes of the holy lands The House of Windjammer The first of VA Richardsons sequence of historical romances about Dutch traders The House of Windjammer has all the chiaroscuro & busyness of the Rembrandt paintings that form a significant part of its inspiration The plotting is the purest of melodrama & Richardson has no especial commitment to avoiding clicheacutebut there is a conviction here & a sense of a society that is all about bustle & feeling righteous & the complex hypocrisies that go with them