Ghost Ship

Jess Mowry

Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, Nov 26, 2016 - Fiction - 162 pages

Petite Orphelin Isle, a tiny Caribbean island near Haiti, where the descendants of African slaves, survivors of an ancient shipwreck, have lived not only in harmony, but also in prosperity for over three-hundred years. Although they might not seem prosperous to the "civilized" world, having no electricity, television or computers, and the only vehicle on the island is a 1904 steam tractor, to Donte Manuxet, age thirteen, proficient in mechanical skills as well as seafaring knowledge, there is no place on earth he would rather live; a sentiment shared by his closest friends, Timothy and Thomas Durant, ages thirteen and eight, sons of the island's chief, and Tiya Millay, age thirteen, daughter of the Mambo and experienced in Voodoo as well as ghostly matters. But when a luxurious yacht limps to their island with engine trouble and Donte and his friends meet Randy Lancaster, also thirteen and heir to his deceased father's fortune, events begin to transpire that result in them all being lost at sea and finding a rusty old cargo steamer apparently abandoned... at least by anyone alive.

About the author

Jess Mowry was born near Starkville, Mississippi and raised in Oakland, California by his single father. After dropping out of 8th grade, he worked many jobs, including driving trucks and operating heavy equipment in Arizona, engineer aboard a tugboat in Alaska, and maintaining cargo airplanes. He also worked at a children's refuge in Haiti. Returning to Oakland in the late 1980s, he worked at a children's center and began writing stories for the kids. After one of his stories was published in ZYZZYVA, a San Francisco-based literary magazine, in 1988, he began seeking publication for his other works. His first book, a collection of short stories about Oakland kids, titled Rats In The Trees, was published in 1990. His first novel, Children Of The Night, also about Oakland kids, was published in 1991. His second novel, Way Past Cool, was published in 1992. Since then he has published twenty novels, which have been translated into eight languages. Jess Mowry lives in Oakland, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ghost Ship
• Author: Jess Mowry
• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, 2016
• ISBN: 0998076767, 9780998076768
• Length: 162 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Visionary & Metaphysical