Caribbean Adventure

In this fourth installment of the Jesse McDermitt series, Jesse faces an antagonist unlike any he's faced before, post-traumatic stress. A friend's son, who was dishonorably discharged from the Corps, is suffering from nightmares, brought on by the incident that was the catalyst for his discharge. With Jesse's help he learns to cope with his demons and gets his discharge overturned, so that he may once again serve the country he loves.

An arranged marriage. A daring escape. Can a Virginia heiress find true freedom and unexpected love on the high seas? Isabella Montgomery never wanted to be a bride. On the eve of her wedding to the calculating Lord Ashworth, she makes a daring escape, stowing away on a merchant vessel bound for the Caribbean. Discovered and forced to return to Virginia, Isabella sees her dreams of freedom slipping away. But when the notorious Captain Blackthorn and her fierce female pirate crew attack the Lady Liberty, a glimmer of hope rekindles. Even more shocking, she recognizes one of the pirates as ...

Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in audio. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.

This is book 6 in the Mack and Carly Adventure Series. Mack and Carly join Alex and Sophia in a venture to create a unique resort on Caille Island where Sophia escaped and managed to kill her captor. The foursome faces a different type of danger from a powerful government official and the ruthless criminal he’s helping to sabotage their venture. The twists and turns of their resort project are complicated by the constant threat of the newly active volcano, Kick ‘em Jenny, and local thugs hired to destroy the resort project.

Mack and Carly settle on Mayreau Island in the pristine Saltwhistle Bay. Their home overlooks Carlyta’s Beach Bar and the clear blue waters of the harbor where adventurous sailors come and go each day. Annika, their precocious four-year-old, is growing up quickly and gives their life a whole new meaning—until the past catches up to them. The hatred-filed women from their past just can’t let go of their need for revenge. This terrifying saga spans the globe from the Caribbean to Africa, South America and Monaco.

1718 the infamous pirates of the Caribbean meet secretly in Nassau harbor on Blackbeard’s prized ship the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Caught in the clutches of a tempestuous storm, their lives take an unimaginable turn when a time vortex whisks them away to the year 1873, casting their ship into the depths of San Francisco Bay. Prepare to set sail on a thrilling fusion of history and fantasy as the Golden Age of Piracy collides with the untamed spirit of the Wild West! In Pirates of the Wild West, the most notorious swashbucklers to ever roam the Caribbean find themselves shipwrecked and ...

The Caribbean is the setting for this latest Stephen Masters thriller. The action carries Stephen Masters and Joyce Hurtado from the soft sands of the island of Barbados to the island of Curacao and then to Venezuela and ending in exotic Cuba. As in all of the Stephen Masters spy thrillers it is a complex plot filled with dangerous adventure mixed with humor involving the characters everyone has come to love and enjoy reading about. The story begins with what appears to be a simple assignment. Stephen is in Barbados for a trade conference carrying out his duties as the Secretary of Labor ...

Caribbean packs 700 dramatic years into a tale teeming with revolution and romance, authentic characters and thunderous destinies. Through absorbing, magnificent prose, Michener captures the essence of the islands in all of their awe-inspiring scope and wonder.

Sailing into the Bahamas, expecting a tropical paradise, a young adventurer comes face to face with the hard reality of a cruel world, when he is confronted with modern-day slave traders and bloodthirsty pirates preying on native islanders and unsuspecting yachtsmen in the Bermuda Triangle. After rescuing a group of young islanders, Luke Canfield incurs the wrath of a South American warlord who hunts him for years across the Caribbean Basin leaving a trail of bodies, while abducting women that are sold into servitude to rich housewives in Miami, and Saudi Arabian pedophiles. Inducted into ...

‘Quest in the Caribbean’ is the final book in the Quest Series. Wendy and I have learned to become sailors. We thank our lucky stars every day that the sea has been merciful to us. The sea is our home, but it can also be a strict master and unforgiving teacher. We learn our lessons one day and one problem at a time. But more importantly, Wendy and I learn a great deal about each other and what it takes to be good companions on a tiny boat. Compatibility on a cruising boat is the irreplaceable ingredient that keeps the cruise alive. The first chapter of ‘Quest in the Caribbean’ ...

Danger, deception, and buried secrets await in this pulse-pounding collection of three thrilling adventure novels set in the world’s most breathtaking—and treacherous—islands. Book 1: The Honeymooners – Newlywed archaeologists Charlie and Ella Colton stumble upon a priceless Mayan artifact in the Cayman Islands, only to find themselves caught between an antiquities thief, a private collector, and a wealthy seductress who will pay any price to reclaim the treasure. Can they solve the mystery before their honeymoon turns deadly? Book 2: The Tempest – The Samsara Resort and Spa is ...

Jesse McDermitt is finally ready to retire. But life has other plans. While diving on a remote reef deep in the backcountry of the Florida Keys with his wife, son and two friends, he discovers of all things, a car. Not just any car, but a 1928 Duesenberg Model J, the most powerful and stylish automobile of its time. The car was once owned by a Saudi prince who was attempting to develop Johnston Key in the heart of Turkey Basin before Henry Flagler even finished the rail line to Key West. But that’s not all Jesse discovers and what he finds next will make him the target of one of his own.

Ex-Marine Richard Drake is on the lookout for threats to his high-profile client living on St. Mark, smallest of the US Virgin Islands. His cover as a charter sailboat captain enables him to gather gossip among the US and British islands during lazy days and balmy nights. Richard’s peaceful routine is shattered when a terrified Sophie Cooper arrives on the run and begs him to take her to isolated St. Mark. Richard agrees. She has good reason to be scared – her ex-boyfriend, Cliff Webb. She has overheard one too many party conversations at his Palm Beach mansion, where they lived ...

How many times have you had that overpowering urge to leave it all behind and sail off to a tropical island? The desire of the ordinary landlubber to go to sea is as old as mankind itself. Here is the true story of how my wife and I became captured by the powerful allure of the sea. This is book one of a four book series. 'Quest and Crew' begins hours before a hurricane of unimaginable destructive force obliterates the south shore of Grenada. Luckily, Quest survives without a scratch. It’s a story about how life's many twists and turns, fortune and disaster, can change your path but make ...

Things in the Middle Florida Keys aren’t as idyllic as they seem. If one looks closely, there’s a layer of dirt just below the surface. The butt-ugly kind of dirt that’s hard to get off. Things move slowly in the Keys—locals call it island time—but there are some for whom it seems that time is at a standstill; whose clocks revolve only around the tides, fish migrations, and the rising and setting of the sun and moon. Jesse McDermitt remembers the Keys the way he’d first found them as a young man.

What would a sailing challenge be without green water over the bow and a hard beat to windward? ‘Quest on the Thorny Path’ is the second book of the Quest series. You are now on the feared and fabled Thorny Path. Leave the laid back cruiser hangout of Georgetown, Bahamas behind and hit the big ocean waves for the first time. From Georgetown we take the path less traveled through the deserted and desolate out islands of the southern Bahamas. After a short stay in the Turks and Caicos, our course takes us to the north coast of Hispaniola. Christopher Columbus appropriately named this ...

Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air. One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be—a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone. Something very sinister is going on—Jesse smells it. He’s usually very good at rooting out the source of a problem, but is stumped this time.

Jesse McDermitt discovers an environmental nightmare of deception and greed taking place in Central America. A cartel is branching into smuggling things other than drugs. And they’re doing it quite effectively. Having so many moving parts and numerous smuggling routes, can Jesse and the crew of Ambrosia, on a dive vacation in the Bay Islands of Honduras, be able to make a difference? Or will the beautiful reef surrounding the island of Utila be Ambrosia’s grave?

TWO HURRICANES. A CORRUPT INSURANCE SCAM. A TOWN ON THE EDGE. Florida journalist Will Harper thought his latest story would be another exposé on crooked contractors. But when he digs deeper into a hurricane insurance scam, he discovers a plot as tangled as the mangroves and as treacherous as a storm surge. When Ryan Dressler snaps after being shortchanged by his insurance company, his fury escalates—leading to a dark twist that leaves adjuster Bob Dickerson fearing for his life. Meanwhile, Will meets the Grimes family, who are struggling to rebuild after two storms and a system stacked ...

A lifelong friend finds something deep in the Everglades that is so very odd, that when he calls Jesse McDermitt, at first the semi-retired former special operator is in total disbelief. But he is also very intrigued, and the duo set out on another adventure reminiscent of their childhood days. But their youthful quest had been all about fun and make-believe. This one was real, waiting nearly a century to be discovered.