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Book's Genesis In my lifetime, I have not traveled as extensively as I would have liked, but I have traveled perhaps more than my fair share. Whenever someone has asked, "What's the most beautiful place you have ever been?" I have always answered, "Tahiti, and specifically the magic island of Bora Bora." I have also had more than my fair share of mistresses – inanimate floating objects made of fiberglass, wood, cloth and aluminum – all sailboats...
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UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS
What is it like to cast off your professional, and social moorings, sail across an ocean and re-establish a new life in a place like Tahiti? Climb aboard the yacht Cherish and experience with loved ones and friends the awesomeness of sea and sky, calm and storm, memories and future dreams. This book is the third in the series of the Stockton family sailing adventures. It is also a love story that is possible but not probable...
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Copper Canyon continues the adventures of beautiful Detective Socorro Castillo, her friends and lovers. The story takes place mostly in the rugged canyons of Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara, also known as Barrancas de Cobres. Socorro's older beloved brother has been missing for five years and is rumored to be living in the canyons with the isolated freedom loving Raramuri Indians. Socorro has vowed to find him and in the attempt she discovers a world of...
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An Ensenada Mexican cartel employs a new narcotics smuggling method through Santa Catalina Island into the Southern California lucrative drug market. High-speed luxury power boats are used to move the drugs across the border. A strong Santa Ana wind plays a role in the plot's discovery and two old CIA/DEA friends form a partnership to identify the smugglers and capture the gang. A beautiful Mexican detective involves herself in the scheme and aids...
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While on a romantic vacation with her retired Marine lover, a beautiful Mexican senorita and her father are kidnapped by a powerful drug lord. A ragtag band of friends, led by the Marine, put together a dangerous rescue plan that leads them to a Mexican Standoff in the coastal mountains of Nayarit, Mexico. While being held captive, Socorro Castillo must consider escape, face being sold for guns, or bargain for her life or honor with the aristocratic...
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The following chapters and sailing stories are an amalgamation of some research, of this author's personal experiences, and embellished by my extrapolated imagination feeding off my life experiences. Where truth ends and imagination takes over is up to the reader to determine. However, this book is mostly fiction. Some of the characters in the stories are real, but under advice I have changed names and made them fit the venue into which they are placed....
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How does an author describe a dream as in this title? He writes a story about a family's vacation to one of the most beautiful places in this world, present day Tahiti. And then he takes it one step further — goes back in time 200 years to what was then called O'Taheiti — an unspoiled island paradise, a visual tropical banquet, where the native Polynesians had thrived semi-peacefully and undiscovered for a thousand years. Explorers, whalers, and...
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Terrorists in the Gulf of Mexico. It could happen again, a massive oil spill off the coast of Louisiana, but not by accident this time. Three terrorists, one from Colombia and two from Iraq arrive at a little fishing village on the Mexican east coast. Each man is seeking redemption from previous crimes or the chaos of war in order to find freedom and start new lives. A gorgeous Colombian model accompanies the terrorist trio. She has joined the terrorists...
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See short description, then forget reality, throw away time and think about what you would do to try and correct the wrongs that exist in the political world of Washington D.C. and today's Congress. This story describes the imaginary travels of the four Mount Rushmore Presidents on their way to meet with a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate. They each speak to our electorate on such topics as: fiscal responsibility and establishing...
10) Socorro
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Socorro is a 24 year old vivacious Mexican Detective who pushes on the limits of love and adventure. She needs to mature and decide on her ultimate lover. The story moves from drugs in St. Louis, MO - including a hot dance scene - to the rescue of her brother who was once buried alive, escaped, converted to Indian ways and then captured by the Mexican cartels. Much of the story takes place in Mexico's Copper Canyon.. Socorro's emotions run high
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