Bøker utgitt av Lyle Garford

Jonathan Thomas is drifting and on the run from his life two weeks before Christmas when he stops at a seaside town in the Pacific northwest of America. His curiosity is piqued while having dinner in an old cafe beside the beach when he learns the cafe is haunted. Attracted by the pretty owner of the cafe, Jonathan stays in town and is made welcome by the owner's friends. His curiosity grows when he learns they seek to understand why they have a strange, collective sense they are being asked to help the spirit haunting the cafe. Not even certain how many spirits are haunting the cafe, they hunt for clues in the past, hoping it will help them better understand what they are dealing with. But as they progress Jonathan soon learns whatever is haunting the old cafe is not alone in needing help. To succeed in fulfilling their collective spiritual task they must overcome the impact of greed in their lives while helping whatever is haunting the old cafe to finally move onward.

In 1773 when twenty year old Lieutenant Owen Spence is wrongfully dismissed from the British Royal Navy he finds himself set adrift on the Caribbean island of Jamaica.Alone and despairing for the future Owen is desperate to find work, for he has minimal resources. Aided by a Spanish woman who becomes his lover he finds work ferrying sugar along the Jamaican coast for a plantation owner, but he abhors slavery and knows the life is not for him. His fortune changes when he meets an uncle he hasn't seen for years and is offered work as a merchant Captain trading goods throughout the Caribbean and America.What Owen doesn't know is his uncle is a spy for the British Foreign Office and he wants to recruit Owen to help. Owen is soon in the middle of growing intrigue, for French and American spies are plotting against the British to bring about the birth of a new nation. Owen is torn by the growing conflict like so many others throughout the Caribbean as he struggles to save countless lives by uncovering and stopping the plot.The Sugar Sands is the first of three books in The Owen Spence series.