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. ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Weird Florida Atlantic Coast Fishing Road Trip takes you on an unforgettable journey from Amelia Island to Key Largo, following one of America’s most fascinating coastlines in search of great fishing, strange stories, hidden gems, and unforgettable family adventures. This is not just another fishing guide. It’s a road trip through pirate towns, haunted lighthouses, treasure-hunting beaches, rocket-launch coastlines, legendary fishing inlets, quirky seaside communities, and some of the weirdest places Florida has to offer. Travel down Florida’s Atlantic Coast and discover: • Surf ...

In this speculative domestic thriller, a woman’s journey into a parallel world forces her to take control of her splintering life—if she can survive long enough to get back home. Marina Clarke’s life is unraveling. When her controlling husband accepts a job transfer under suspicious...

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...

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. ...

For generations, the people of Desperation have lived with the Widow's Shoal—a stretch of Atlantic water feared by fishermen and avoided by those who know its history. Then Pat Norwal disappears. His son Sean vanishes with him, leaving Pat's wife, Maddy, to carry on alone. Ten years later, a fishing boat returns from the Shoal carrying something that should never have come back. The sea begins to change. The water thickens. The fog moves against the wind. The dead begin to return. And across Desperation, ordinary people are transformed into something that no longer belongs on land. As ...

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. ...

The Lobster Boil Weekend was supposed to be the biggest celebration Pelican Harbor had ever seen—four hundred people, an antique copper kettle, and sixty quarts of Blair Whitcome's Cajun lobster bisque. What Blair didn't plan for was opening her walk-in cooler at four in the morning to find the man who delivered the lobster dead inside it, with someone else's handwriting in her temperature log and a sharpened oyster knife she'd never seen before. Now her kitchen is sealed, her festival booth is the talk of the harbor, and Detective Delcambre is building a case against a hot-tempered young...

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 ...

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 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 ...

An enemies-to-lovers romance. A Hollywood actress stranded with a grumpy mountain man. And an Alaskan wilderness that doesn't care about either of their egos. Lena Kensington's career imploded after she threw a champagne flute at her director on live television. Her agent's last-ditch plan: a wilderness reality show in remote Alaska. She expects staged photo shoots at a luxury lodge. Instead, she crash-lands a floatplane into someone's wedding, loses a Louboutin in a dock, and meets Finn Hollister, who treats her designer wardrobe like a personal insult to his mountain. Finn's lodge is ...

Welcome to Clean Slate Ranch: Home of tight jeans, cowboy boots, and rough trails. For some men, it’s a fantasy come true. Reyes Caldero keeps his past buried deep and his emotions buried deeper. But what he doesn’t say he always makes up for with his actions. When the hot chef he once saved...

Beneath the surface, the dead are waiting… When mermaid private investigator Alexis Silver is summoned by her CIA handler for a “quiet favor,” she expects another classified errand. Instead, she’s flown to rural Oregon, where a long-forgotten reservoir hides a drowned town, and a Cold War listening post built to monitor something the Agency still refuses to name. But the lake holds more than secrets. As Alex dives into the sunken streets of Haskell Springs, she finds spirits drifting through ruined storefronts and ghostly figures glaring from the windows of submerged houses. Some ...

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...

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 ...

This sixth volume of the Hobbs series shows how a caring, inter-generational community can help everyone make the right connections. After a dark winter of loss and isolation, the summer people are returning, including forty-something Melissa Morgenstern, a trust lawyer from Boston. Melissa has been working remotely since the pandemic began. She has temporarily moved to Maine to comfort her widowed mother. Up to now, Melissa’s devotion to her tight-knit Jewish family and her legal career have made relationships difficult. Town doctor, Liz Stolz introduces her to the new assistant ...