Chasing after the man who killed his fiancee, Daniel is on a quest for vengeance that leads him beyond the edge of the world into a greater world than he ever knew existed. This world is embroiled in war and despair. He is unable to avoid being quickly caught up in the events of the rest of the world, forced to abandon his own personal quest for a more noble quest with newfound friends and enemies. It is a quest. . . for hope.

Hired to return some very old pirate loot to its rightful owners, Daniel, Billy, Stefanie, and Mark embark on a new adventure that leads them halfway around the world and to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean where they stumble upon a mystery involving the Bible.

As Halloween approaches Ocracoke Island, Billy, Daniel, Stefanie, and Mark are helped by the ghosts of Blackbeard and the eccentric Mrs. McNemmish when they are held captive by the local scoundrel Zeek, who is searching for a hidden treasure.

Jordan, a fifteen-year-old child actor, embarks on a perilous odyssey through the temptations of Hollywood and the emotional battlefields of his family life, as he copes with a narcissitic mother, the father who has been molesting him, and his remarkable but dying grandmother. A first novel. Reprint. NYT.