Rocky Island

Drug smuggling is big business on the east coast of Nova Scotia. Rocky Island is the based-on-facts fictional story of the entire business, from the Caribbean to Canada to the USA.With murder and intrigue among the smugglers and their agents, and the RCMP hunt to find and arrest the criminals, it's only a matter of time before civilians find themselves caught in the middle. Enter Rocky Island lighthouse keeper Toby French and his artist wife Allison. When Allison's father is brutally murdered, the couple soon find their lives turned upside down as they are drawn into the investigation, as well as the war on drugs.From the AuthorRocky Island is a fictitious small island located off the coast of Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, Canada, about 90 miles from where the author grew up. The plot concerns the adventures of a newlt married young couple who are the only inhabitants of the island. He is the lighthouse keeper and she is an artist. All is well until he discovers the wreckage of her father's fishing boat washed up on the shore after a storm. A Search and Rescue team locate her father's body and that of a crewman. As the helicopter stops at the island, the pilot offers to take Allison back to the mainland with the bodies of her father and the crewman and she accepts, but on take-off, the helicopter crashes into the ocean. Toby uses his ever-ready inflatable boat to rescue all on board. A few days later, while Allison is still away, the body of the third crewman washes ashore.The RCMP are called in because foul play is concerned. The police discover that drug smuggling is going on with an aging freighter, posing as a legitimate cargo carrier, is dropping off drugs to smugglers posing as fishermen. Allison's father was caught and murdered by the smugglers when he innocently appears in the midst of a transaction. After the ship runs aground on Rocky Island when it is caught in a fog, the smugglers are finally caught and a double agent among the smugglers is caught and the case is solved.