Off the rough coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man -- the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Her goal is to ID a shipwreck off the coast of the island, but she and her divemaster Mitch Thompson discover much more than that.
After a week of ghosts, near-drownings, surly elderly tourists, and stampeding ponies, Ella finds in Mitch the answer to a question she has never dared ask herself: Do I need anyone in my life?
Mitch, who grew up on the island on a diet of ghost stories, believes the ...
Off the rough coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man -- the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Her goal is to ID a shipwreck off the coast of the island, but she and her divemaster Mitch Thompson discover much more than that.
After a week of ghosts, near-drownings, surly elderly tourists, and stampeding ponies, Ella finds in Mitch the answer to a question she has never dared ask herself: Do I need anyone in my life?
Mitch, who grew up on the island on a diet of ghost stories, believes the wrecksite is haunted. At first, Ella refuses to believe him. She's a scientist -- she doesn't believe in the supernatural.
During their time working together, Ella overcomes her bad first impression of him and falls for Mitch. And he does the same for her. Like the waters off Ocracoke Island, she finds he has hidden depths.
They just have to stay alive long enough to solve the mystery of a young girl's killer before the ghosts of dead pirates take them down to the bottom of the ocean, forever.
Michael Jasper has published over five dozen short stories in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, O. Henry Festival Stories, Polyphony, Writers of the Future, and the Raleigh News & Observer, among other fine venues. He is also the writer for the groundbreaking digital comic In Maps & Legends, with artist Niki Smith. His most recent novel is A Sudden Outbreak of Magic (UnWrecked Press).
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Off the rough coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man -- the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Her goal is to ID a shipwreck off the coast of the island, but she and her divemaster Mitch Thompson discover much more than that.After a week of ghosts, near-drownings, surly elderly tourists, and stampeding ponies, Ella finds in Mitch the answer to a question she has never dared ask herself: Do I need anyone in my life?
Mitch, who grew up on the island on a diet of ghost stories, believes the ...