No Defense, Volume 3.

Set against the sun‑baked plateaus and tangled jungles of a Jamaican plantation, the story opens on a Christmas day thick with the scents of ripe mangoes, cassava cakes and the distant chatter of parrots. From his lofty “castle” Dyck Calhoun surveys a world of bustling markets, creole feasts and a tangled web of relationships between white planters, free people of colour and enslaved labourers. His keen eye catches the contradictions of island life—luxury beside hardship, indulgence beside oppression—while he wrestles with a restless conscience.

Amid this vivid backdrop, Dyck turns to a letter he has never sent, a confession that reaches back to a violent past: the murder of a man named Erris Boyne, the father of a friend he once knew. The unfinished correspondence hints at secrets that could upend his comfortable existence, pulling the reader into a tale of loyalty, guilt and the fragile balance of power in a colonial world.