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When the USS Huron went down off the coast of North Carolina in 1877, she took most of her crew with her and a mystery about why they were headed to Cuba in the first place. When a present-day storm uncovers a long-hidden portion of the wreck, including the captain’s lock box, international photojournalist Mike Scott and his friends dive on the wreck to find out more. When the archeologist helping them unravel the contents of the lock box disappears, right after finding a hidden, coded message inside, Mike heads to the Isle of Pines in Cuba, once known as Treasure Island, to discover the ...

The gruesome death of a girl, a protest of new development, and the systematic destruction of coral reefs on Grand Cayman all alert photojournalist Mike Scott that criminal elements are at work on the idyllic island. When Mike’s buddy Kelly is kidnapped, it is a race against time for Mike to save his friend and bring down the greedy developer putting his own wealth before the beauty of the island and the welfare of the people.

News photographer Mike Scott is on a dive vacation and gets taken hostage when the theft doesn’t go as planned. When the identity of the head pirate is exposed, he declares all the passengers will die when they reach their destination. It’s up to Mike, the passengers, and crew to overcome the pirates and save their own lives. It doesn’t help matters that there is a mole on board feeding the pirates information and they are heading right into a storm. Now they must rebel against the pirates and take the boat back before time runs out.

Sharks are attacking divers in the Florida Keys. Mike Scott barely survives the first incident, but it doesn’t make sense. These sharks are especially aggressive, attacking in groups and not retreating. It’s almost like someone is controlling them. The discovery that a narco sub full of cocaine sank nearby may be the reason, but that doesn’t explain why all the activity is focused around the Christ of the Abyss statue in Key Largo. Is there something else going on? Is it the statue itself? Or is there a larger conspiracy? It’s up to Mike to unravel the mystery before anyone else ...

Murder, kidnapping and the theft of an ancient Mayan statue, both 500 years ago and today, and diving in cenotes on the Mayan Riviera all come into play in this Mike Scott thriller. Speaking at his alma mater, Mike Scott learns that the death of a friend 25 years before might not have been an accident. That discovery, and the revelation of who was behind the murder, sends Mike on a hunt to find a missing Mayan statue that contains the “heart of the Maya” before a lunatic drug dealer with delusions of grandeur kills a friend and corrupts the Mayan people. This is the fifth Mike Scott ...

A cruise ship drops anchor on a coral reef in the Caribbean Sea trapping Mike Scott underwater while the air supply in his scuba tank slowly drops toward zero. The computer systems in a car are hacked and the car and runs into George Town harbor, nearly drowning the driver. A "cone of silence" drops over the island nation, cutting off communications between Grand Cayman and the outside world.

Dr. Francesca "Frankie" DeMarco, a beautiful Italian archaeologist, is searching an underwater site on the Adriatic Coast of Italy. Chasing stories of a mysterious group of Guardians, she runs into roadblocks. Someone is trying to keep her from discovering the truth. To unlock the mystery of the Guardians, Frankie and Mike Scott have to overcome a group of delusional fanatics. If they are successful, they might just find a religious artifact lost when the Romans overran the Temple in Jerusalem: the Breastplate of Judgement, worn by the Jewish high priest when he went before the Ark of the ...

Mike Scott is nearly killed when a private jet crashes into the ocean near him in the waters off Curacao. The cause of the crash is mysterious, but when men try to kidnap the plane's pilot, whom Mike helped save, he realizes there is a conspiracy to cover up evidence.

Photojournalist Mike Scott is about to get married to the woman he loves — archeologist Frankie DeMarco – but her kidnapping sets Mike on a collision course with the treasure hunter who took her. The man wants Frankie’s help finding a 400-year-old shipwreck, so Mike sets out to find it first to get her back safely. Word of a secret cargo on board raises the stakes even higher.

Criminals in Los Angeles are using a dive operation to smuggle illegal drugs into the City of Angels . Or are they up to something more sinister? It is up to photographer Mike Scott to figure it out. And he has to do it before disaster strikes the heart of the city. Beginning as a simple photo shoot to capture glamorous images of an actress enjoying the sport she loves–scuba diving around Santa Catalina Island–things quickly turn serious. Before it all ends, the two will face danger and fanaticism in the Hollywood Hills. Flooding Hollywood pits photographer Mike Scott against a group of...

Tales from Withrow Key is an anthology of Withrow Key thriller short stories. Each tale centers around the adventures of Jackson Pauley, a New York City firefighter who retired after 9/11 and his partner Randy Littlebear, a tribal cop from the reservation to the north. And don’t forget the rest of the characters that make up the Conch Republic. Scuba diving, adventure, and beautiful visions of the Florida Keys above and below the water are front and center in this collection of action short stories. And quirk. Don’t forget the quirk. Withrow Key is filled with odd characters and real ...

When the crew from the nationally-syndicated ScubaRadio comes to sleepy Withrow Key for a lionfish rodeo, things start going wrong immediately. The host, "Greg the Divemaster" Holt, can barely dive. When Jackson Pauley spears a lionfish, Greg grabs it and gets stung. The radio show is a disaster. When Duffy, the local bar owner, goes missing amid rumors of hidden pirate treasure, Jackson, Littlebear and Zach jump into action and the chase is on. They only have a few hours to unravel the mystery and save their friend.

In this first-person account, author Eric Douglas examines his own recovery from open-heart surgery and the road back to health and fitness as a Heart Survivor. In January 2016, Douglas failed a stress test and ultimately had quintuple bypass surgery. Looking back over the previous year, he recognized many times that he denied symptoms and ignored the possibility that his heart was in trouble. Following the surgery, Douglas made two promises: to be as public as he could about his own recovery process so others could learn from it; and to get back in shape so he could return to scuba diving....

Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winning stories from the sixth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!

If you're retiring in the next 5 years and want to know how best to prepare for and live in retirement, then this podcast is for you.

In this post-apocalyptic anthology, nothing matters except survival. Many are forced to scavenge every day to get by while others are part of the remaining vestiges of society. Some face zombies and other monstrous creatures while others watch their backs from fellow humans. Regardless of their numerous challenges, when the end arrives, life finds a way. Featuring twelve stories by the following authors: Jon Douglas Rainey, Kenneth Gwin, L.A. Knight, Linn Thomas, Rob Nisbet, Larry Hodges, Eric J. Juneau, Aidan Hass, Daividh Eideard Mitchell, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Gary K. Shepherd, and ...

Dwindling freshwater resources around the world are causing unrest, riots and civil war. When photojournalist Mike Scott uncovers a Russian oligarch’s plans to throw the United States in turmoil by poisoning the groundwater, he is in for the fight of his life to stop it. It’s a race against time as Mike fights computer hackers, teams of assassins and robot drones to protect South Florida and the United States from its own Day Zero.

Small groups of travelers have disappeared all over the mid-Atlantic without a trace. When bodies turn up with what appear to be ritual markings, FBI Agent AJ West is on the hunt for what might be a serial killer. Or something even more sinister. It’s a race against time to make sure no one else goes missing and stop the killer, or killers, before there is a nationwide panic.