An imaginative “string” of speculative fiction started to unravel with the publication of Water’s Way. From there it looped and wound its way around and through Chain Speed and Kindred Spirits. And now the stage is set for Water’s End. A fitting conclusion filled with enough unexpected twists, turns, and fast paced action to keep even the most avid reader of suspense fiction entertained for hours. For you see…Jack Anderson had never allowed a case, any case, to totally preoccupy him. Even those very few that had managed to avoid the Precinct’s Closed Case File over the years had never completely engulfed his life for any significant length of time. The Bad Guys would always come and go. The city’s citizenry would always resume their daily lives once the media headlines softened and died away. And Maplewoods and Jack Anderson would always find their own delicate balance between human cruelty and blindfolded justice. But there was one. One case and one faceless maniac which had stuck to Anderson like glue. So tight that it opened the door to Anderson’s early retirement. So strong its pull that it continued to gnaw at him long after he should have found a way to pry it loose. And when Jerry Lee returned, the vice-like bond of dread and hate pushed Anderson another step closer to the edge.Water’s End…the journey continues.

The Water's End is the story of Rob Miner, a blue-collar kid from coastal New Jersey trying to find his place in the world. He has spent his entire life dreaming of a tropical paradise where he can forget his past and surf the blue waves that haunt him. When the story opens, his grandmother has just died, and Rob knows he has nothing left to keep him home. He heads for Pacific Mexico, and winds up in a remote corner of Oaxaca, full of white beaches and empty waves, Zapatista rebels and Mayan ruins. There he finds everything he'd always longed for, including another American traveler with whom he falls in love. Rob revels in his nirvana, but it does not last long. He soon discovers that the American girl is not who she claimed. She too is hiding from her past, and has brought trouble to Mexico. With one stroke, Rob's dreamscape is threatened, and he is on the run again, towards some painful lessons about life, love and dreaming.

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as lush as the marshes that surround it... Bonny Blankenship’s most treasured memories are of idyllic summers spent in Watersend, South Carolina, with her best friend, Lainey McKay. Amid the sand dunes and oak trees draped with Spanish moss, they swam and wished for happy-ever-afters, then escaped to the local bookshop to read and whisper in the glorious cool silence. Until the night that changed everything, the night that Lainey’s mother disappeared. Now, in her early fifties, Bonny is desperate to clear her head after a tragic mistake threatens her career as an emergency room doctor, and her marriage crumbles around her. With her troubled teenage daughter, Piper, in tow, she goes back to the beloved river house, where she is soon joined by Lainey and her two young children. During lazy summer days and magical nights, they reunite with bookshop owner Mimi, who is tangled with the past and its mysteries. As the three women cling to a fragile peace, buried secrets and long ago loves return like the tide. READERS GUIDE INSIDE