The Raiders of Castillo del Mar

Centuries ago, a desperate pirate queen risked everything to bury a cursed island fortress and send its secret to Davy Jones. Now if small town supersleuth Johnny Socko doesn’t discover it soon, he’s going to die of boredom.

Crisscross the Caribbean with Anne Dubois, a right cunning lass whose legendary sword carves a vicious brand of buccaneer vengeance across the Spanish Main. When she chases a fabled jewel into uncharted waters, she finds herself square in the crosshairs of the fearsome Crimson Pirazzo, a deformed pirate captain, part man, part myth. Their deadly game of cat-and-mouse became one of the lost legends of the high seas. No one knows how it ended. Or where.

Enter Johnny Socko. He’s the greatest double-threat detective / quarterback his high school has ever known. His name still dominates the local headlines, but he long ago cleaned up all the poacher gangs, smuggling rings, and international art thieves his sleepy coastal community had to offer. Even the cattle rustlers have left town. When Johnny stumbles onto a clue to Anne’s final resting place, he jumps at the chance to escape the dull tedium of life as a football all-star.

Anne had her shot at history and disappeared without a trace. Now Johnny must dive every shipwreck, decipher every code, and deploy every gadget in his comic book arsenal to escape a similar doom.

THE RAIDERS OF CASTILLO DEL MAR

is a rollicking send up of 1950s teen detective fiction, fused with a powder keg of swashbuckling adventure. It’s cutthroats vs. quarterbacks. The Pirates of the Caribbean against The Hardy Boys.

Anne and Johnny are two halves of the same treasure map, destined to collide in the tempest-tossed tropic isles, where an unholy secret lurks in the dread spires of Castillo del Mar.

She vows to plunge the stronghold into darkness. He plans to light it back up.

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