Fish Town

Weird Fishing Towns of Florida Florida has pretty beaches, but the better stories are usually hiding near the docks. Weird Fishing Towns of Florida takes readers on a funny, salty road trip through the state’s strangest working waterfronts, seafood villages, fishing legends, and old coastal towns that refuse to behave like normal vacation destinations. From the sponge docks of Tarpon Springs to the oyster-haunted streets of Apalachicola, from stone crab country near the Everglades to tarpon madness in the Florida Keys, this book explores the weird side of Florida’s fishing culture. ...

A dying town. A blood debt from the deep. A nightmare awakening. Collin Mercer hasn’t returned to Black Tide Point in eleven years, and for good reason. The dilapidated fishing village is drowning in rot, sulfur, and long-buried secrets. But when a salvage dive uncovers an antique pendant from the silt of a submerged channel, it awakens a starving, ancient apex predator. This is no fairy tale. It is a ruthless, elongated nightmare with translucent teeth that uses the drowned as bait. Trapped inside a flooded cannery while a violent storm surge cuts off all escape, Collin is forced to face...

Lottery winner and ex-journalist Donal Fitzgerald joins forces with his girlfriend, DNR conservation officer Mercy Virdon, to solve the mysterious death of a beloved angler, Charlie, who was murdered in his tent in a state campground and who was known by all - and who may have known too much. Set in the engaging small town of Ossning on the Borchard River in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula - an angler’s dream, filled with eccentric, believable, sympathetic, and unforgettable characters - Riverwatcher is a classic whodunit.

Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Roble in East Texas, leaving behind the man she’s dating and the life she’s worked hard to build. Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine’s Auntie Zanne and proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home, has long since traded her French Creole upbringing for Big Texas attitude. She’s a member in a number of ladies’ auxiliaries and clubs, including being in charge of the Tri-County Annual Crawfish Boil and Music Festival. Hanging on to ...

Welcome to Travers Corners, a dusty Montana town, where nothing much has happened since Herbert Hoover stopped for gas. Travers Corners, like most small towns, has no newspaper, no radio station; but here, large trout - no better than large trout, fictitious trout - await the angler. And apart from spreading gossip outside the McCraken’s General Store, the residents of Travers Corners love nothing more than fly fishing. Scott Waldie’s delightful cast of characters breathes life into this tiny, out-of-the-way town.

A grumpy single-dad fisherman. A sunshine teacher new to Alaska. And a slow burn that melts the coldest state. Timber Moore trades the Arizona heat for a summer teaching job in Port Promise, Alaska. She tells everyone she's chasing adventure, but the truth rides in her coat pocket: a postcard from a man who might be the father she's never met. All she needs is a few quiet months to dig up answers. She doesn't need Kane Hollister—gruff, storm-eyed, and convinced she won't last the season—telling her she doesn't belong. Kane has one rule: don't get attached to anyone who isn't staying. ...

Clyde Sheffield prefers a quiet life stocking produce and avoiding attention, but when loudmouthed fisherman Jasper Oxridge publicly dares him to enter a high-stakes bass tournament at Lake Blackshear, Clyde finds himself hooked into something he never wanted. Becky McInvale, the independent office manager —and the girl Clyde never had the nerve to ask out in high school—joins the competition herself after Jasper’s ego gets out of hand. As boats launch and tempers flare, Clyde must navigate more than tangled lines and stubborn fish; he has to find the confidence he’s always lacked. ...

Skyla Maxwell has a plan for everything. Her career. Her future. Even the exact kind of boyfriend she’s supposed to have. So when her sister announces a week-long destination wedding at a Colorado dude ranch, Skyla hires a professional plus-one to survive the family scrutiny. What she gets instead is Eli Crawford, a cowboy with calloused hands, a quiet smile, and no idea he’s supposed to be pretending. Stranded at a remote ranch with spotty cell service and no backup options, Skyla and Eli strike a deal. He’ll play the devoted boyfriend for seven days of wedding chaos. She’ll keep ...

He cheated on me with my pregnant little sister. Then he handed me his boat to rig up for the championship. Big mistake. See, everybody on this lake thinks Buck's the star — the fake grin, the sponsors, the dumb catchphrase. Nobody knows his wife is the one who rigs every boat, owns the tackle brand, and can out-fish him in her sleep. I didn't scream when I found out. I'm an angler. I bait the hook and I wait. He's got three weeks till the weigh-in. Live TV. Whole town watching. He wanted one more trophy under the lights. I'm gonna give this town a show they'll be laughing about for years...

An elegant, slow-burn time travel romance. Rosalind's story begins in Victorian England in 1895, where she is a duchess of fifty, and unfolds in the present day, from the year 2026 onward. England, 1895. At fifty years old, Rosalind Carrick, Duchess of Aldworth, has spent her whole life being handed from one man to the next. Married off at seventeen, exiled for thirty years, and now, newly widowed, shipped across the Atlantic to a second husband she has never met, she has learned the only safety a woman in her position is allowed: to want nothing, and so to have nothing left to lose. Eight ...

She’s a city girl with a blog to write. He’s a hometown hero who gave up the big leagues. All it takes is one swing to change everything. When Harper Lane is roped into Maplewood Grove’s charity baseball game, the last thing she expects is to catch feelings for the local coach with a past. But sometimes, a curveball is exactly what you need. Harper Lane prefers road trips and blog posts over settling down—until her cousin ropes her into playing in Maplewood Grove’s annual charity baseball game. Humiliated at the plate and way out of her element, Harper’s ready to pack up and go...

Sinister secrets hidden by the tranquil waters of an Ozarks lake. Can married amateur sleuths bait and capture a killer before the truth slips away? Kirkus Reviews—“A fine whodunit featuring a delightful cast whom readers will love—or love to hate.” After newlyweds Elizabeth and Jonas Trout arrive to settle her grandmother's estate, they quickly find themselves embroiled in a treacherous mystery when Elizabeth is implicated in the murder of the property manager. With mounting evidence and the Southern small-town sheriff convinced of her guilt, Elizabeth and Jonas must fish for clues...

THE SEA REMEMBERS. AND IT DOESN’T FORGIVE. Marcus Holson escaped Havenwood once. He barely survived it. Years ago, something happened off that coast — something the town buried, the authorities ignored, and Marcus’s own mind refuses to remember clearly. Now a message has dragged him back to the place he swore he would never return. The tide is wrong. The air tastes wrong. And the sea is changing. The townspeople won’t talk. The fishermen won’t explain. And the shoreline is creeping farther inland every night. As Marcus investigates the waters he once studied, he uncovers a ...

From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere There are good moms and bad moms and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect...

She’s lost everything, including her house and her husband. When a stranger leaves her a beach café in North Carolina, she grasps the chance for a new beginning. When a stranger leaves forty-five-year-old Caitlin Walsh a beachside café in North Carolina, she grasps it as a lifeline to escape her shattered life. Packing up her things, she convinces her best friend to join her on a coastal road trip toward a fresh start. But inheriting a business is a mystery in itself. Caitlin doesn't know the first thing about cooking, and some of the locals seem resentful of her sudden arrival. The ...

Bloomsbury presents Dark, Salt, Clear written and read by Lamorna Ash. A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'A bracing account of discovery ... Glistens with deftly told snippets and character-rich stories' Financial Times 'Marks the birth of a new star of...

When Sawyer learns what I am, and he isn’t sure what to make of it. Worse, it seems distance is what he needs most. Even though things might be less than ideal between Sawyer and me, at least I still have a friend in Wendy. But, soon, even that relationship will see its own crisis when posters appear throughout town proclaiming I’m a criminal on the run. Although the rumors are a hoax, I feel the whole town is turning against me, Wendy included... and I can only wonder who’s to blame for the lies. Luckily for me, there’s a new man in my life named Marshall. Having just moved to ...

Gracie Mayberry wants to study marine science at the community college in a neighboring coastal town. But a degree takes money, and she must remain in Cranberry Cove to help her mother support her disabled father who lost both legs while serving his country and now suffers from PTSD. She leaves her job at Starbucks to work at The Inn at Cranberry Cove while the owner is on maternity leave. When the sophisticated, good looking Blake Sloan arrives at the inn, she's attracted to the guy with eyes the color of rich honey. Seattle resident Blake Sloan takes time off from his job in his father's ...

She’s settling into a new life. But when a fishing trip totally capsizes, can she get a friend off the hook for murder? Elizabeth Trout still feels awkward living back home. Discovering a BFF from her raucous high-school days has become the perfect mom is as weird as staying with her mother while awaiting construction of her new home. But she’s shaken to her core when her newlywed husband and beloved dog are nearly blown out of the water in a dockside explosion which leaves another woman dead … and her bestie is arrested for the crime. To clear her friend, Elizabeth and her spouse set...

I ordered a new life. I didn’t expect it to come with a beard and an attitude. The listing said “mountain homestead, strong partner needed.” It didn’t mention the outhouse, the lack of Wi-Fi, or the six-foot-three wall of flannel and silence. Caleb Rourke doesn’t talk. Doesn’t smile. Doesn’t seem to want a wife at all, despite what he told the matchmaker. Fine. I didn’t come to Blackstone Ridge to be wanted. I came because I’d burned my old life to the ground, and this was the only door still open. But I don’t quit. Not when the mornings are freezing. Not when he watches...