Come High Water

As a storyteller, Maureen Nash can't help but see the narrative cues woven through her life. Like the series of letters addressed to her late husband from a stranger—the proprietor of The Moon Shell, a shop on Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The store is famous with shell collectors, but it's the cryptic letters from Allen Withrow, the shop's owner, that convince Maureen to travel to the small coastal town in the middle of hurricane season. At the very least, she expects she'll get a good story out of the experience, never anticipating it could end up a murder mystery.

When a badly burned body is found near the remote Ardnamurchan Lighthouse on the west coast of Scotland, it feels like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team. But the victim’s list of enemies, including a diminutive loan shark and a powerful local politician, is far longer than Jack was prepared for. And don’t even get him started on the magic psychic sex cult.

For one brief moment in history, it was possible to slide down a muddy bank, board a steamboat, and travel anywhere within a 16,000 mile system of inland waterways known as the Western Rivers. They included the incomparable Mississippi River, the scenic Ohio, the muddy Missouri--and a score of lesser tributaries. In Volume 1 of Come Hell or High Water, Gillespie uses wit and wisdom to relate tales of navigating the wild rivers, the mechanics of the early vessels, perils of winter travel, the accursed obstacles of the first bridges, the crew and piloting of the era of steam. Gillespie is a ...

The steamboats, those smoking, puffing works of carpenter gothic--carried freight by the hundreds of tons and passengers by the score.

There's something fishy just below the surface of Scumble River.... School psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd is getting ready to return to work from her maternity leave and hoping for a peaceful year in her job as a school psychologist. But when an elderly woman disappears on her first day back and a disgruntled parent threatens to sue the school, Skye realizes that her return will be anything but quiet. When the parent suing Skye's school is found dead and with the missing woman's case still unsolved, Skye suspects the crimes are somehow linked.

A routine weekend visit by the Gillibry Bird Observatory Trust is made memorable by the owner’s announcement that he is going to sell the island. A sale would mean the end of the Observatory, which for some of the birders made life worth living. A fire in Charlie Todd’s cottage added to their distress. And when, next morning, after a fierce storm, they found Charlie dead in a bird hide, their pleasant September weekend assumed a dangerous new face.

When a Black Lagoon type creature causes chaos at a campsite, Vana, witch detective, is assigned to rein him in. But this bugger is tough to pin down. And when he kidnaps a female camper, what is his intent? Is he a lonely heart, like Winnie and Adam suspect, or does he have more treacherous intentions? And when Vana spies a young camper being bullied, will it draw out memories of her long ago past? ***Find out in the Second Book in the Witch Detective Series***

My name is Lucifer. I told you my story in The Road to Hell. It was only the beginning. Now the war in Heaven is over; the damned souls have fallen. All is as it should be. But Heaven is a fractured, broken husk. The Host is silent. The angels do not sing. The Father does not speak. All of it is frozen. Dying. Except for Michael. Michael the Archangel is busy hunting. Everyone.

With his own boat, the motor yacht Sea Fox, former naval officer Philip Vivian had hoped to earn a living free from the petty restrictions of everyday life, close to the sea he loved. Now, however, his dream is threatened by financial difficulties. So when a profitable, if legally dubious, proposition is put to him by an old naval comrade in arms, Vivian is willing to listen. But what starts out as a harmless adventure soon turns into something altogether more sinister.

Spring has sprung, the river is rising, and when Luann Dupree, the head of River Bend's Historical Society, vanishes into the night, everyone in town is convinced she's run off with her Internet Romeo. But her lifelong friend, Sarah Biddle, is convinced Luann is the victim of foul play. No one believes her—not even her husband, the local sheriff, so she turns to Helen Evans for help.

What if following Jesus led you directly into the rising waters of a flood? Come Hell or High Water is a behind-the-scenes peek at the first decade of the birth and growth of Awaken Church.