The tale begins in London in the 1730s; Tom Ellis is trapped in debt and heading for the Fleet, a notorious debtors’ prison. By happenstance Tom is sucked into a fight in a pub, defending a drunken aristocrat—James Oglethorpe—and his life is changed forever.
Languishing in prison, he is rescued by Oglethorpe and pulled into a fantastical scheme to start a new town—Savannah— and a new colony named Georgia in America. Tom Ellis travels across the Atlantic with the first founders and fights to protect the colony from a dramatic scheme to undermine it
Yamacraw Bluff is a fully panoramic historical novel capturing the sights, scenes, and experiences of the founders, while telling the untold story of loss, internecine conflict, and revenge.

About the Author

Dr. Luke Pittaway is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio University. He has been an academic since 1998 and he earned his PhD from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The author worked in universities both in the UK and the US, founding entrepreneurship programs. He has published over fifty academic papers and book chapters in his discipline.

He emigrated to the United States, and Georgia specifically in 2008, to settle in Statesboro, located near Savannah. At this time, he became fascinated with the colonial history of North America and especially the states of Georgia and Ohio. As he became knowledgeable about this history, he realized that many people were unfamiliar with aspects of American history prior to the War of Independence, and this motivated him to write about the founding histories of colonial North America in an accessible way that would be appealing to readers of historical fiction.