Uncertain Tides

A brutal North Atlantic storm has the fishing trawler Emily stuck in port-until a mysterious young woman walks into a waterfront bar with a desperate plea and a suitcase full of cash. Madlyn Eszterhas claims her brother vanished on a routine flight to Martha's Vineyard. The authorities have given up. She hasn't.Captain Tony Pine and his crew agree to help, but the deeper they go, the stranger her story becomes. A ransom demand. A remote island with a dark past. A deadline that can't be missed. And a storm powerful enough to kill them all.When a gun is drawn and the truth comes out, the crew is thrust into a dangerous rescue mission that forces them through violent seas, a deadly surf landing, and into the ruins of an abandoned leper colony-where armed kidnappers wait in the shadows.Uncertain Tides is a gripping maritime thriller of loyalty, deception, and survival when the ocean-and the people on it-turn hostile.