Deadly Light
(2026)(The first book in the Locke Lighthouse Adventures series)
A novel by Dave Jackson and Mark Stone
A lighthouse built to guide ships. A signal meant to warn one man. A murder designed to bury the truth.After twenty years in the military, Casper Locke returns to Daufuskie Island for the one job he never expected to take: caretaker of the lighthouse where he grew up.
The same lighthouse where his father died.
Hollis Locke supposedly fell from the tower when Casper was sixteen. By morning, Casper had been removed from the island, the official report had erased him as a witness, and the people who knew the truth had stopped talking.
Now the lighthouse has flashed a strange warning pattern no modern beacon should produce.
Then a prominent land attorney is found dead near the marsh.
The missing archivist who may hold the answers has vanished. Old property records have been altered. Someone is using Casper’s father’s secrets to steer the investigation toward him, and the island’s beautiful shoreline hides a network of forgotten roads, private docks, disputed land, and histories powerful people would kill to control.
Casper’s only allies are Ryder Bellamy, his quick-witted childhood friend, and Jessa Vale, an investigative reporter whose sharp questions are almost as dangerous as the attraction growing between them.
To solve the murder, Casper must uncover who manipulated the lighthouse, why his return was no accident, and what his father hid in the shadows beneath the beam.
Because on Daufuskie Island, the light does not reveal everything.
Sometimes it shows a killer exactly where to strike.
Deadly Light is the first book in The Locke Lighthouse Adventures, a fast-moving coastal mystery packed with island secrets, sharp Southern banter, maritime danger, and a decades-old mystery that is only beginning to surface.
Genre: Thriller
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