In her first historical novel, Voyage to Muscovy, M.J. Rigg brings to life the dangerous and often fatal wooden world of sixteenth-century seamen. With a self-supporting career in dental hygiene, author M.J. Rigg returned to school in her mid-forties and graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. Each class was specifically chosen for its content pertaining to sixteenth-century England and Europe. Rigg discovered that history is a treasure box filled with stories waiting to be told.