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He came to Southport to disappear. She sees the world without sight, but she sees him. Ty Brady is running from ghosts he can't outrun. Haunted by a sacrifice he'll never forget and a past that refuses to stay buried, he steps off a bus in the quiet coastal town of Southport, North Carolina, hoping the salt air and the steady rhythm of the tides will silence the chaos inside him. Then he meets Bree. Blind since a devastating accident that stole her parents and her sight, Bree Barlow has learned to navigate life through sound, touch, and instinct. She doesn't need eyes to sense the pain Ty ...

A deadly secret buried in the jungle. A race against time across continents. A reporter with everything to lose. Investigative journalist Emerson Moore thought he was headed for sun-soaked relaxation on a diving trip to Madagascar. But when he crosses paths with a smooth-talking, down-and-out British reporter, everything changes. Sucked into a shady rescue mission in lawless Somalia with his old friend “Mad Dog” Adams, Moore soon finds himself deep in the heart of the African continent—on a journey far more dangerous than he ever imagined. From skirmishes with Congolese militias to a ...

In Southport, North Carolina, a Christmas tale unfolds when 80-year-old George Ivers is left alone at home while his wife visits a sister for five days. George has to watch the cat he dislikes, resulting in a series of comical escapades. Picture a man who's a blend of the gruffness of Archie Bunker, the stone-age charm of Fred Flintstone, and the nearsighted blunders of Mr. Magoo, and you've got George. His days are filled with hilarious mishaps, from a battle of wits with a cheeky seagull to the relentless interruptions by neighbors. George's quest for peace is perpetually sabotaged by the...

In 1928, a Pinkerton detective chases a Flagler treasure train toward Key West during the devastating Okeechobee Hurricane—neither reaches its destination. Decades later, investigative reporter Emerson Moore stumbles onto the mystery at a train museum in Ohio, just as he’s preparing to go undercover on a Cuba-to-Key West drug trafficking story. Drawn into a dangerous web of murder attempts and shifting identities, Moore must balance the hunt for long-lost treasure with the peril of exposing a ruthless Cuban drug lord. With the help of a defense contractor in the Keys and a determined ...

Sequel to Flight After barely surviving a near-death escape in Cuba, investigative reporter Emerson Moore seeks peace on Virginia’s Chincoteague Island. But his quiet recovery shatters when he’s drawn into a deadly drug-trafficking operation spreading across the Delmarva Peninsula. With the help of island legend Roe “Duc-Man” Terry and the irreverent Chuck “Big Daddy” Meier, Moore’s investigation leads straight to ruthless kingpin Max Steiner—and a lethal showdown at Steiner’s Cape Charles stronghold. Each clue tightens the noose, pushing Moore deeper into danger until ...

Holden Beach to Shallotte to Southport to Ocean Isle Beach Put-in-Bay investigative reporter Emerson Moore visits Shallotte, North Carolina to relax with an old friend. Little did Moore know that he would be pulled into the intrigue surrounding a suspicious boat offshore the Flounder Pier restaurant in nearby idyllic Holden Beach. Mixed in the plot are the strange nightly explorations by a retired shrimp trawler captain on the Shallotte River near the Holden Seafood Company plus his longstanding feud with another trawler captain. Toss in a couple unsolved murders, a touch of romance, a ...

NASA rocket explosions and a series of unsolved murders disrupt the idyllic calm of Chincoteague Island, a quiet barrier island on Virginia’s east coast better known for its annual pony swim. Put-in-Bay investigative reporter Emerson Moore’s relaxing fishing vacation to Chincoteague Island is interrupted when he becomes embroiled in deadly international intrigue affecting NASA rocket launches. Assisted by the sultry director of nearby Wallops Island’s NASA facility, the sarcastic head of NASA security, the charming owner of Captain Bob’s Marina, and a mysterious loner, Moore works ...

With his white beard and red suspenders, his salty good humor, harmonica, and bucket of tall tales, Zeke Layne is one of those memorable characters you can still occasionally find - whether it be a Chincoteague Island waterman or retired Cape Cod fisherman or charter boat skipper in the Florida Keys, or in the case of Memory Layne, Bob Adamov’s poignant word portrait, a former Miller ferry boat captain on Lake Erie. Zeke lives with his daughter, teenage granddaughter and golden lab in an old mobile home, built on steel pilings at the Miller Ferry Catawba dock, with a view from his deck of...

All 80-year-old George Ivers wanted was a quiet Thanksgiving with his wife in their cozy Southport, North Carolina home. Instead, he gets a bevy of unexpected (and very much uninvited) guests ringing his doorbell like a game show buzzer, each more hilariously eccentric than the last. George is a comical mix of Archie Bunker’s sass, Fred Flintstone’s stubborn streak, and Mr. Magoo’s oblivious charm. A master of sarcasm and low-key sabotage, George cooks up schemes to send his guests packing, but they just keep coming. Between wrestling with a temperamental dishwasher, having awkward ...

FROM SNOW AND ICE TO PARADISE FROM LAKE ERIE’S PUT-IN-BAY TO KEY WEST TO THE CAYMAN ISLANDS In 1944, a mysterious German raider from Hitler’s pirate fleet disappears in the Caribbean. Years later, a Soviet frigate sinks off Grand Cayman Island. Washington Post investigative reporter Emerson Moore visits the Cayman Islands where he is drawn into the intrigue surrounding nefarious Jamaican drug lord, Pryce Clarke, and his surreptitious underwater activities in Boatswain’s Bay. At the same time, Moore stumbles across information regarding the missing German raider and uncovers a deadly ...

A Confederate raiding party from Canada commandeers a Lake Erie ferry boat in Put-in-Bay and plans to free 2,000 Confederate prisoners on nearby Johnson Island while a spy schemes to destroy the Union gunboat in Sandusky Bay. The raid is complicated by a seedy French-Canadian, a mysterious trunk and a body found on Rattlesnake Island where rainbows end. One hundred forty plus years later, Emerson Moore, an investigative reporter struggling with the tragic death of his wife and son, returns to visit his aunt in Put-in-Bay where he incurs the animosity of a wealthy shipping magnate who lives ...

Put-in-Bay to Detroit to Key West When a mysterious explosion levels his aunt’s island home and she disappears, investigative reporter Emerson Moore is thrust into a dangerous search for answers. Was she kidnapped—and why? Clues point to a network of shady Russian operatives running London-style taxis in Put-in-Bay and in Key West. Moore teams up with island entertainer “Mad Dog” Adams and later a ragtag crew of misfits led by the notorious Chuck Meier to unravel the mystery. Their search spans from a violent clash with a Detroit drug lord to a chaotic chase in the Florida Keys. ...

The Search for the Nazarene's Code. If you liked National Treasure and DaVinci Code, you’ll love Sandustee. It’s a worldwide chase for clues to finding a lost Biblical scroll, the Nazarene's Code, which gives the holder the power to control nations. Running through the novel is a thread which links Osama Bin Laden to Jesus and the twelve disciples to Abraham Lincoln to Lincoln's assassination to Booth's escape to Dr. Samuel Mudd's house to Mudd's imprisonment in the Dry Tortugas. The thread is the Legend of 13; words with thirteen letters have stunning implications on the plotline. This...

Jamaica to Put-in-Bay to Wooster to Tulare to Las Vegas to London to Morocco to the French Riviera to Norway to New Orleans What’s killing dairy cows? Investigative reporter Emerson Moore’s search for the source takes a deadly turn when he focuses on infiltrating a British biotechnology company suspected to be involved with the deaths of the dairy cows and several humans. Following the unexpected death of a close colleague, Moore faces his most formidable challenge yet as he embarks on a James Bond-like international odyssey with the help of a technological genius and a Royal Canadian ...