Bøker av Rick Ley

Jolie Rouge is the spellbinding historical-fiction prequel to Reckoning at Little Bear, intertwining the nefarious career of Bartholomew Roberts with a macabre yarn of terror and deceit that will leave you with second thoughts about venturing too far from shore. In 1721, Roberts was at the pinnacle of his career as a rogue captain aboard the Royal Fortune. His exploits confirmed his standing as the greatest marauder in the Golden Age of Piracy. Three centuries later, a group of college friends reunite for a week of treasure hunting in the southern Bahamas, where their path fortuitously crosses Roberts's storied past. Danger befalls them when the friends are abducted at sea and entangled in a modern-day ring of international piracy from which there seems no escape.

<p>It started out as a walk in the woods: look for two gravesites and get out. Moments later, Michelle and Melanie are fighting for their lives on a desolate Colorado mountainside.<p/><p>Cryptic emails warned Michelle not to meddle in the past. Little did she know, when researching her latest book, that the Tarryall Mountain Foundation was a front for a ruthless international crime ring with ties to the Sacred Lands disaster that nearly claimed her life in 1988.<p/><p>Meanwhile in Charleston, South Carolina, Michelle''s husband, Nick, pursues an environmental litigation case, weighing the implications of disturbing field data that suggest a natural disaster is imminent. He''s soon forced to make his own escape from Tarryall''s clutches.<p/><p>In this thrilling sequel to Ghost Creek and continuation of Jolie Rouge, tension boils over when Michelle and Melanie make their stands, and Nick''s worst fear comes true.<p/>