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Father Steady Capri knows quite a bit about helping others. But he is afraid Katie Quinn's problems may be beyond his abilities. But there is one person who still may be able to save her from herself. He will show her an alternate escape, a way to write a new life. Ultimately, he will need to leave his secluded home and sacrifice the serenity he's found to help her. From the Florida coast, they will travel to the French countryside where they will discover the unwritten story of both their pasts and their future.

They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimuë the mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the settlement a town, the town a community both blessed and cursed by their tempestuous affair.

He’s never had to compete for a job before - and she fights like a girl. Loner James Malloy is a ferry captain - or used to be, until he was unceremoniously fired and replaced by Courtney Farris. Now, instead of piloting Brenton Island’s daily lifeline to the glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days beached, bitter, and bored. When he discovers a private golf course staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such “improvements”.

Max Rigby is a middle-aged, aloof writer stuck in the past when he falls in love with the pit-girl from S/V Nefarious, a sailing vessel that lives up to its name. The woman who has awakened his heart is the fleet's most fierce sailor, Robin Mac Bradaigh, aka "Mac", a young, fiery, unapologetic sailor who refuses to be pushed around by a fleet of scoundrels. But Nefarious carries a dark reputation, and Max soon finds himself caught up in a sailing race that is as dangerous as it is thrilling.

Wenn man schweigt, vergisst man nicht. Im Naturschutzgebiet Hollesand wird ein Kopf gefunden, dem die Augen entfernt wurden. Kurz darauf wird eine junge Frau aus Emden vermisst, die eine Fahrradtour durch Ostfriesland unternommen hat. Ist sie ebenfalls dem Mörder zum Opfer gefallen oder lebt sie noch? Dirks und Breithammer setzen alles daran, einen weiteren Horrorfund zu verhindern und suchen unter Hochdruck nach dem Mörder.

A bombastic Welsh publican bets a rival that a converted wooden pub barrel can successfully cross the Irish Sea. The pride of the local village is soon put on the line. The landlord's son is tasked with skippering the Green Beagle barrel boat on a risky journey to the Emerald Isle. Behind closed doors, he tells his son not to worry because he will arrange to fake the crossing. But when the big day finally arrives, it becomes clear there will be no escaping making this voyage for real.