The 14th Colony

France, 1720. One stolen document. One ruined life. One way out.

Pierre Mayeux had everything a young man could want — a comfortable home on his father’s tax farm in northern France, and Simone, the sharecropper’s daughter who shared his bed and his secrets.
Then one night changed everything.

When Simone robbed a passing carriage and stole the...

France gave him a second chance. The wilderness will decide if he deserves it.

In the autumn of 1720, Pierre Mayeux steps off La Profond onto the white
sand shore of Nouvelle Biloxi—a young man carrying a heavy burden - a hidden
past, and a sentence from the French Crown. He did not choose Louisiana. Louisiana
was chosen for him.

What he finds is a...