It is 1913, and the plutocrats of the New York Yacht Club have amassed more power and wealth than the US Treasury itself.

Davey and Jacob Haskell, brothers from a poor lobster fishing community in Maine, have a single shot at greatness when they try out for the sailing crew of a NYYC millionaire's luxury racing yacht.

Honor, betrayal, and the cruelty of an egomaniacal skipper put the brothers' family loyalties to the test as they set out to expose a dark secret covered up for years in the corridors of the New York Yacht Club.

Dolby takes us behind the scenes as an intense competition evolves into a high stakes grudge match. The quest for victory is an emotional

roller coaster ride. Once you start reading you won't want to stop.

-Gary Jobson, America's Cup Hall of Fame Inductee

A ripping yarn ... full of mysteries, passion, class struggle, and ruthless competitive spirit. Prevailing Wind is an absolute blast!

-J.J.Abrams, Filmmaker

Written like a sea story should be written, with all the legendary action. A fascinating read. --Clive Cussler

Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman spins a cinematic tale of pirates, shipwrecks, and sea adventure. Co-written with Daniel Lenihan, one of America's leading authorities on shipwrecks and diving, Wake of the Perdido Star is a moving story of a young boy's coming of age on the high seas, full of authentic nautical and historical detail. Wake of the Perdido Star is a captivating tale about friendship, justice, and survival.

In 1805 seventeen-year-old Jack O'Reilly sets sail with his parents from Salem, Massachusetts, aboard the Perdido Star. Jack is full of high hopes at the prospect of a new life in his mother's homeland of Cuba, but shortly after the family arrives, tragedy strikes, and in a desperate escape, Jack rejoins the departing Star as a member of the crew.

For the next three years Jack encounters storms, shipwreck, hostile and friendly natives, and enemy vessels as he travels around Cape Horn to the South Sea islands, the Philippines, and around the Cape of Good Hope. But throughout his adventures, his obsession to return to Cuba for revenge dominates his life, and his daring actions become the talk of the men of other vessels.

This book ranks among those in the long tradition of classic sea adventure novels--full of authentic historical and nautical detail, including realistic descriptions of underwater diving and salvage operations of the early nineteenth century. Jack O'Reilly provides a moving portrait of an adolescent struggling toward adulthood as he learns the meaning of justice, friendship, and survival.

It is 1913, and the plutocrats of the New York Yacht Club have amassed more power and wealth than the US Treasury itself.

Davey and Jacob Haskell, brothers from a poor lobster fishing community in Maine, have a single shot at greatness when they try out for the sailing crew of a NYYC millionaire's luxury racing yacht.

Honor, betrayal, and the cruelty of an egomaniacal skipper put the brothers' family loyalties to the test as they set out to expose a dark secret covered up for years in the corridors of the New York Yacht Club.

Dolby takes us behind the scenes as an intense competition evolves into a high stakes grudge match. The quest for victory is an emotional

roller coaster ride. Once you start reading you won't want to stop.

-Gary Jobson, America's Cup Hall of Fame Inductee

A ripping yarn ... full of mysteries, passion, class struggle, and ruthless competitive spirit. Prevailing Wind is an absolute blast!

-J.J.Abrams, Filmmaker

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead - an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists a generation ago. She's grown up comfortable and sheltered, but starts doing odd jobs for pocket money.

To her surprise, she finds that she's the only detective that a debt slave can afford to hire to track down the woman's missing sister. When she tackles this investigation, she learns things about life on the other side of the waterline - not to mention about herself and her father - that she did not expect. And she finds out that some people will stop at nothing to protect their secrets . . .

In this anthology we see a thrilling spread of narratives: sailors are pitched against a nightmare from the depth, invisible to the naked eye; a German U-boat commander is tormented by an impossible transmission via Morse Code; a ship ensnares itself in the kelp of the Sargasso Sea and dooms a crew of mutineers, seemingly out of revenge for her lost captain.

The supernatural is set alongside the grim affairs of sailors scorned in these salt-soaked tales, recovered from obscurity for the 21st century.

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List. Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers, and other landlubbers.
By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for both captain and crew as the Sutherland single-handedly takes on four French ships.
A fine sea tale, to be ranked with the best of its kind. --New York Times

A sunken U-boat.

A lost cache of Hitler's gold.

Can Chase beat a band of Nazis to this hidden treasure?

Chase's peaceful beach day is disrupted when he rescues the beautiful Rikki Talen from an attempted kidnapping. He finds Rikki being pursued by a group of neo-Nazis bent on finding a missing German submarine filled with a shipment of gold.

The hunt for the treasure carries Chase and Rikki in the footsteps of a long-dead Nazi hunter and into the depths of the ocean.

Grab your snorkel gear and join the pair as they dive into history and face a deadly threat.

Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower now bides his time as a prisoner in a French fortress. Within days he and his first lieutenant, Bush, who was crippled in the last fight, are to be taken to Paris to be tried on trumped-up charges of violating the laws of war, and most probably executed as part of Napoleon's attempt to rally the war-weary empire behind him.
Even if Hornblower escapes this fate and somehow finds his way back to England, he will face court-martial for his surrender of a British ship. As fears for his life and his reputation compete in his mind with worries about his pregnant wife and his possibly widowed lover, the indomitable captain impatiently awaits the chance to make his next move.

Martha's Vineyard islanders open their arms to a glorious springtime of change. The Sheridan Women prepare their hearts and minds for long sunny days, family parties, and everlasting love.

After a blizzard roared across the island in February, Lola Sheridan was forced to postpone her wedding to Tommy Gasbarro, the handsome Italian sailor who stole her heart two summers back. Their June wedding approaches -- and the Sheridan women have a surprise party up their sleeves, one that will shock all involved and make Lola question her allegiances.

A year and a half ago, Susan's daughter, Amanda, prepared to wed her long-time fiancé, Chris -- only to discover that he didn't want to marry her at all. Since then, she's allowed herself to fall for Sam, the handsome front-desk manager at the Sunrise Cove Inn. But after all that heartache, can she really move forward? Can she really trust Sam?

When Amanda and Sam are involved in a heartbreaking hit-and-run car accident, Sam, Amanda, and Lola find themselves wrapped up in a mysterious legal case -- one that will prove, once and for all, who the Sheridan family can truly trust.

Dive into the thirteenth book of the Vineyard Sunset Series, where a vibrant cast of characters live out their dreams on Martha's Vineyard. This is the story of the Sheridan sisters, a heartwarming journey of friendship, loss, and love that will have you wanting the next book.

Elise's life as she knows it is over. Her husband of twenty years had an affair; her children have left the nest; and she hasn't managed to sell a screenplay in almost ten years. Now, one of the people she loved most in the world--her mother--is dead.

Heartbroken doesn't even cover it. She's never been more lost in her life.

Elise and her mother had always lived in Los Angeles. Her mother was an actress and a single mother, who never revealed who Elise's father was.

Now, Elise finds a secret diary within her mother's things--one that reveals a portion of her mother's life that Elise never knew about.

In the late '70s, her mother worked as the personal assistant to acclaimed actress, Jane Seymour. And during this time, she journeyed to the glorious Michigan-based Mackinac Island, for the film, Somewhere in Time.

While there, Elise's mother met a man who changed her life forever. He must be Elise's father. And Elise is determined to find out.

Now, Elise must decide what to do next. How will she grapple with her mother's death? And could a trip to Mackinac Island change her life, like it did her mother's?

She thought all the adventure in her life was over. She thought she would never find happiness again.

But she's beginning to think the adventure has only just begun.

Dive in for a trek of a lifetime: from the glittering sands of Los Angeles, all the way to that gem of an island between the southern and northern peninsulas of Michigan, Mackinac Island, where secrets have been kept for the previous forty years.

One-Eyed Willie is back! Only this time, he returns as a living, breathing, young teen who teams up with his sixteenth-century pals on an amazing adventure on the high seas. Willie and his friends, Thumbs, Tolliver and Twig, find themselves unwitting passengers on a pirate ship and ultimately on a quest to find Magellan's body - and the magnificent treasure rumored to be buried with him.

Accompany these young buccaneers in their daring exploits as they encounter man-eating creatures, malevolent ghostly specters, fierce pirates, and a diabolical island chief bent on their destruction. Follow their funny mishaps and challenges as they make their way through a long, treacherous sea voyage and come to grips with adversity with the aid of Maia, an exceedingly clever island girl.

Before the End will challenge the notion that One-Eyed Willie was the ruthless pirate he was once made out to be - but rather, paint a picture of a young boy finding courage, honor and virtue on his journey toward manhood.

On an overnight run across the Gulf of Mexico, Chase Gordon witnesses a lone yacht explode into a ball of flames. Now, Chase has been catapulted into a whirlwind of deceit. Red Light at Night is a sizzling thriller that navigates through a maze of lies where each clue can be as deceptive as the calm before a storm.

Live the life of a pirate during the golden age of piracy!

It's 1715 and Spain rules the Caribbean. Young Abigail Margaret Mary Pennyworth isn't happy leaving her friends in England for the New World, but she has no say in where her missionary family goes as the Pennyworths set off for America.

Not long before the end of the three-month voyage, their merchant ship is captured by Spanish pirates, and Abby is separated from her family and all she has known. But before she can adjust, the Spanish vessel is captured in turn-by the notorious English pirate Benjamin Hornigold, the leader of the Pirate Republic in Nassau.

Hornigold renames the Spanish vessel Mary and decides that, rather than serving Abby to the sharks, he'll have her serve as a member of his crew. And so starts her new life as the Captain's cabin boy.

Abby's adventures begin as they seize Spanish vessels in the Caribbean and sail in consort with many of the famous pirates of the day: Blackbeard (Edward Thache), Black Sam Bellamy and his partner, Paulsgrave Williams, Major Stede Bonnet, and Olivier Levasseau. In Nassau, she meets Woodes Rogers, the new governor of the Bahamas, and Hornigold's Jacobite-sympathizing nemeses, Henry Jennings and Charles Vane.

Join Abby as she lives the life of a pirate after Queen Anne's War. And yes Abby, they do hang pirates-even if they're girls.

Call me Ishmael is the iconic opening line of Herman Melville's classic American novel Moby-Dick. Ishmael is a seaman aboard the whaling vessel Pequod, under the vengeful captain Ahab. Maniacally seeking retribution from the great white sperm whale called Moby-Dick--the whale responsible for the captain's missing leg--Ahab leads the crew on a quest to kill the infamous beast. A fictional work based on actual events, Moby-Dick is a classic that has been enjoyed for generations, and this edition featuring colorful sprayed edges and a heat-burnished cover with foil stamping makes it a stylish addition to your bookshelf.

Maggie didn't need her Marketing degree to drive a trolley around Savannah for the past 14 years. When her father wins a run-down kayaking company in a poker game, she trades in her trolley uniform for a paddle and jumps at the opportunity to get paid for doing something she loves: kayaking.

Leo once thought that being a gondolier was everything he ever wanted, but that all changed after his father's accident and the circumstances surrounding it. When Leo decides to leave Venice, he is drawn to where his family spent their carefree summers: Tybee Island.

Maggie must find a way to help Leo without losing what she loves. Beautiful places and lovable characters make this novel a stay-with-you-forever read.

Gorgeous sunsets. Crisp lake waters. Crackling bonfires. It's summer on Mackinac Island.

For Tracey, these particular summer nights just might change her life forever. If she'll let them.

Tracey Swartz is a lot of things-- fashionable, spontaneous, quick with a joke, and easy to laugh. No, she hasn't had an easy life. But who has?

But it's finally time for Tracey's big break. Elise's new screenplay is set to start filming on Mackinac Island that summer, and Elise has arranged for Tracey to work in costuming on-set. Tracey is both terrified and thrilled to be a part of movie magic.

But as Tracey prepares for her role, a chance encounter with a man from her past leaves her reeling. Suddenly, she finds herself lost in an emotional correspondence with her daughter's long-lost father-- a man she thought she'd never hear from again.

Chaos ensues as Tracey and her ex-lover become closer than they ever should have been.

On top of it all, the movie director of Elise's film is not who he appears to be-- and soon reveals himself to be something of an unlikely savior in Tracey's life.

Plus, Tracey's daughter, Emma, has secrets of her own.

Dive in for book four of Secrets of Mackinac Island, that gem of an island between the southern and northern peninsulas of Michigan, where secrets have been kept for the previous forty years.

Patrick O'Brian's Blue at the Mizzen--novel #20 in the widely celebrated Aubrey/Maturin series--ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: rear admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. The next novel, unfinished and untitled at the time of the author's death, would have been the chronicle of that mission, and much else besides. The three chapters left on O'Brian's desk are presented here both in printed version--including his corrections to the typescript--and a facsimile of his manuscript, which goes several pages beyond the end of the typescript to include a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer who is courting his fiancée. These chapters show that O'Brian's powers of observation, his humor, and his understanding of his characters were undiminished to the end.