Ten-year-old Dylan is excited when his father inherits an old lighthouse and cottage in Maine. Dylan and his family get to live there all summer! He goes sailing on the bay, explores the small town down the road, and searches for a legendary pirate treasure that was said to be buried nearby. After mysterious things start happening at the cottage, Dylan meets Matthias, a gruff lighthouse keeper who had died in a storm one hundred years before. A ghost! Dylan is startled to find Matthias living … [Read more...]
Bargain Book for 11/21/2014: Of Foreign Build by Jackie Parry
This book is bargain priced from 11/21/2014 until 11/22/2014 After suffering an emotionally-brutal bereavement and against her counsellor’s advice, Jackie ran away. Suddenly within a new culture, with a new husband, and no friends, she was living in the obscure world of cruising with zero knowledge of boats. Crashing within the first twenty-four hours, Jackie realised life would never be the same again; a floating home with no fridge or hot water, and with a dinghy instead of a car. … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Jackie Parry
About Jackie Parry: Originally from the UK, Jackie is now an adopted Australian. She grew up with horses in the UK until her world was shattered with a heart-breaking bereavement. Disillusioned with life she ran away to Australia and met and married Noel. They decided to buy a boat and set sail. So within her first year living in a foreign land, she was getting used to a foreign husband, and a foreign life on board! Mariah II took Jackie & Noel around the world. Pyewacket II (purchased … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – A.J. Sendall
About A.J. Sendall: “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW.” UNKNOWN “YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT UP BEFORE YOU CAN WRITE IT DOWN.” ROBIN MOORE. After three decades of ‘living it up’, it is now time for A.J. Sendall to write it down. Not as a dry travelogue or memoir, but as realistic novels based on real life experiences. Experiences, which still run technicolour through his mind. Since ’79, A.J. Sendall has been collecting people and places. From the polluted dust bowls of the Sahara, to the pristine ice … [Read more...]
Island Explorer by Dan Scheffler
Adventure through remote tropical seas! Do you want to sail to pristine islands, untouched coral beaches and flawless surf? Board the Island Explorer and join a group of surfers in a quest to find perfect waves away from the crowded shores of the known world. Join the journey through Sumatra’s jungles, across volcanoes and along chaotic roads, through isolated villages and temples to the fabled Mentawai Islands and beyond. As the ship drifts deeper into the wilds, its occupants … [Read more...]
Swept to Sea by Heather Manning @HeatherM_Author
Lady Eden Trenton never wanted to leave her privileged existence in London—until her father invites a dangerous suitor into her life. Left with few options, Eden devises the best reprieve she can: escape. Chasing freedom, she stows away aboard a pirate ship, praying she will gain her independence in the colonies before she is discovered by the nefarious crew. Captain Caspian Archer has spent the last five years hardening his heart and searching to exact revenge for the event that tore his … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – Marilyn Dalla Valle @mjdalldv
Author Bio: Marilyn W. Dalla Valle lives in Northwestern Connecticut with her husband, Roger and a rambunctious Sheltie named Randy. Together they play ball, go for long walks and frequent the shore. Dance Instructor for 5 years and professional photographer for 30, when her two sons left the nest, Ms. Dalla Valle decided it was time to write. A fan of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Clive Cussler and Sue Grafton, the genre she chose had to be mystery with a twist of adventure. In March … [Read more...]
The Boat Thief by MD LEE @mdlee62
This book is bargain priced from 12/26/2013 until 12/31/2013 What was in the large canvas sack young Fisher saw the Police Chief and the Mayor heave into the trunk of an old Buick? Whatever it was he saw, he shouldn't have because now they’re after him. He believes running away is the only choice to keep himself alive. There aren't many ways for a kid to escape, but living in a coastal Maine town there are hundreds of islands in the vast open sea to go into hiding. Stealing a small … [Read more...]
Hurricane Hole by RP Dahlke @rpdahlke
While anxiously awaiting confirmation on the renewal of her TV contract, Leila Hunter Standiford, opts for a sail on the boat she and her sister co -own in Mexico. But when she impetuously invites a family friend, and fugitive from justice, Gabe Alexander, as crew, she has no idea of the trouble that will follow. Now, at the end of her vacation in Puerto Felice, all she wants is to get Gabe off her boat. Then a beautiful vintage Alden sails into the anchorage, and though she admires the boat, … [Read more...]
Interview with Author – James DeAcutis @jdeacutis
Author Bio: Author James DeAcutis grew up fascinated by the worlds created by Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, John Varley and Edgar Allen Poe and with this, first novel, he hopes he’s created a world and characters that will fascinate a new audience. An avid cook and hockey player, he is also a prolific songwriter influenced by progressive, heavy metal and folk-rock. He lives in New York with his wife, a school teacher and their three children. What inspires you to write? I have so many … [Read more...]
A Dangerous Harbor by RP Dahlke @rpdahlke
Bleary-eyed and sleep deprived, solo sailor, Katrina Hunter, thinks the mermaid twenty behind her boat is nothing more than a sailor’s hallucination. But everything she knows about floaters convinces her to take another look. Now, alone and isolated in Ensenada's police station, she’s convinced that reporting a floater was a mistake. Chief Inspector, Raul Vignaroli, is as surprised by the attractive solo-sailor as he is to discover that she’s a respected member of the SFPD, and now he’s … [Read more...]
Book Excerpt: Sirocco, Storm over Land and Sea (Book 2-Legends of the Winged Scarab) by Inge H. Borg
About your Book: Sirocco, Storm over Land and Sea, is a present-day thriller with tie-ins to the Author’s historical fiction saga Khamsin, The Devil Wind of The Nile (Book 1, Legends of the Winged Scarab). Egyptologist Naunet Klein arrives in Cairo to assist museum director Dr. Jabari El-Masri in deciphering golden tablets inscribed with dire predictions from an unknown ancient culture predating the Egyptians. She never dreamed that she would meet a handsome stranger. Nor had she and her two … [Read more...]
