In this new thriller set on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of Dark Isle, a small barrier island off the North Florida coast. Settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago, their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave.
That last descendant is Lovely Jackson, who knows, deep down, the island is rightfully hers. Mercer befriends Lovely, and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns the island. But Lovely knows something the developer doesn't : the island is cursed. The deep secrets of the past are about to collide with the enormous ambitions of the present, and the fate of Dark Isle—and Camino Island, too—hangs in the balance.
In this new thriller set on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of Dark Isle, a small barrier island off the North Florida coast. Settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago, their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave.
That last descendant is Lovely Jackson, who knows, deep down, the island is rightfully hers. Mercer befriends Lovely, and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns the island. But Lovely knows something the developer doesn't : the island is cursed. The deep secrets of the past are about to collide with the enormous ambitions of the present, and the fate of Dark Isle—and Camino Island, too—hangs in the balance.
