Smuggler’s Cove by Fern Michaels
Smuggler’s Cove by Fern Michaels is a superb drama/mystery sure to keep you turning page after page.
At age 26, Jackson Taylor is a hedge fund manager heading for power and wealth. At 27, he’s married to Gwen and has his own firm – a firm so successful, the couple lives a lifestyle of the rich and famous, wanting for nothing.
This is the story of the Taylor family and their two children, Madison and Lincoln. It’s a prosperous, happy family – or is it? As the years go by, the economy slows down — business isn’t as good. But Jackson refuses to give up their luxurious lifestyle. He and his business partner clean out retirement accounts of unsuspecting investors. Money laundering. Ponzi schemes. Offshore bank accounts.
Jackson’s wife, Gwen, simply turns a blind eye. It’s business as usual. But this is also the story of what happens when greed and avarice catch up to Jackson and Gwen and how their world begins to disintegrate, tossing their now young adult children into a free-fall of chaos and danger.
Madison is studying fashion and working her way up in the fashion world. Lincoln teaches wealth management at a local college. They are inseparable, leaning on each other during the worst of times, like when their father is arrested and their mother dodges from place to place.
Their father, Jackson, has done terrible things to so many people. They are in fear for their lives – retaliation and revenge have both of them laying low with a security crew.
Things quiet down once their father’s case goes to trial and he’s sent to prison. And then, an unexpected inheritance falls into their laps. Madison and Lincoln are now co-owners of a marina at Smuggler’s Cove on the Navesink River!
They are ecstatic – that is until they see the property. Not much of marina, and what there is of it is very rundown. There are legends of lost treasure on their property, but Madison and Lincoln feel they are just that – only “legends.” But before they can even try to sell the property, a dead body is found floating under their dock.
This isn’t just a mystery. Smuggler’s Cove by Fern Michaels is a riveting story of a wealthy family losing it all and how it impacts their teenage children as they become young adults. It’s a tale of a brother and sister surviving dangerous scandals, going out on their own to create a new life – in spite of their parent’s past. It’s also a story of their unbreakable bond as siblings and how they deal with “sins of their father.”
A copy of this book and cover photo were provided by: Kensington Publishing.