A Light Off the Starboard Bow

A mysterious stranger led archaeologist Jill Reade was led to a cave by the banks of a fast-flowing river. She and her crew then excavated for two seasons but found nothing that would merit further research.

She is reluctantly packing to leave when the apparition appears again. Now she’s convinced there is something here by the riverbank—something so important a man would twice leave his grave to expose it. And is the evil arsonist just as determined to keep that secret hidden?

Jill’s quest for answers has taken her from the northern Cascade Mountains to the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas and to the plantations of Charleston where she learns of political intrigue, pirates, booty, and ....