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M. S. SPENCER (Cont.)
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
BLURB EXCERPT
Who’s littering the park with corpses?
State Park Rangers Simon Ribault and Ellie Ironstone
are used to dealing with messy campers and ravaging rac-
coons, but when three bodies wash up on the beach, they
mobilize all their powers of deduction. Who are they and
how did they get to the shore of Amelia Island? Are they
connected to the secretive League of the Green Cross?
Or linked to a mysterious Jamaican drug ring?
Ellie, new to Amelia Island, must penetrate a close-
knit community if she wants to find answers to the mys-
tery, all while deciding between two rivals for her affec-
tion: Thad, the handsome local idol, and Simon, the
clever, quirky bookworm.
Simon, for his part, will have to call on his not-so-
well-honed romantic prowess to lure Ellie away from
Thad and at the same time use his wide-ranging research
skills to solve the case. He refused to even consider the subject he knew eve-
rybody assumed he was dwelling on. Not that he was
scared. Oh, no. But he had to admit doting on Ellie from
afar had felt nice and safe. Now that the relationship had
evolved, he found himself harried and unsure. And scared.
Marriage? Marriage had never been in the picture,
mainly because he was positive no one would have him.
Who wants a fellow with knobs on his nose from constantly rubbing
it inside books? He’d had a few short-lived girlfriends, but
after college, he’d been too obsessed with mastering every
subject that came his way to waste time on amatory pur-
suits. His mother always said he should have been a librar-
ian. He had obliged her by collecting yet another master’s
degree, this time in Library Science. Yes, that’s where I be-
long. Snug inside four wood-paneled walls lined with shelves filled
with other people’s stories.
What does she see in me?
Reviews Welcome.
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