Emerald Cut
(2026)(The second book in the J.D. Morgan Caribbean Thrillers series)
A novel by William Alan Webb
They came for what lay beneath the surface...Veridian had made its first move, with the county happy to hold the clipboard: Payoffs 101, Old Florida to its core. Except they hadn't reckoned with J.D. Morgan and Erin Tiger Motlow, USN (ret.).
Bureaucrats on the take don't give up so easy, though. Permits begin to vanish into the bureaucracy, businesses get taped off like crime scenes, and boats start disappearing from their slips without a trail. On paper, all perfectly legal. Slow death by government paperwork.
On the water, it was a different story. J.D. Morgan and Erin Tiger Motlow had already seen Veridian’s hand moving beneath the surface, and now that same fist of greed was coming ashore.
Not an inspection, anymore, a squeeze. There was too much at stake to let it go.
With the marina under watch and their people caught in the crosshairs, J.D. and Erin started pushing back in the way they know best; quiet and careful, with zero patience for polite lies, until the time came to use other means. And in their world, 'other means' usually meant bodies dumped where nobody would ever find them. Because while Veridian thought they were dealing with a meddlesome pair of salvage divers, they were wrong.
Dead wrong.
Veridian wasn’t just hiding something in Southwest Florida. They were protecting it. And this time, J.D. and Erin knew exactly where to start digging.
Genre: Thriller
Bureaucrats on the take don't give up so easy, though. Permits begin to vanish into the bureaucracy, businesses get taped off like crime scenes, and boats start disappearing from their slips without a trail. On paper, all perfectly legal. Slow death by government paperwork.
On the water, it was a different story. J.D. Morgan and Erin Tiger Motlow had already seen Veridian’s hand moving beneath the surface, and now that same fist of greed was coming ashore.
Not an inspection, anymore, a squeeze. There was too much at stake to let it go.
With the marina under watch and their people caught in the crosshairs, J.D. and Erin started pushing back in the way they know best; quiet and careful, with zero patience for polite lies, until the time came to use other means. And in their world, 'other means' usually meant bodies dumped where nobody would ever find them. Because while Veridian thought they were dealing with a meddlesome pair of salvage divers, they were wrong.
Dead wrong.
Veridian wasn’t just hiding something in Southwest Florida. They were protecting it. And this time, J.D. and Erin knew exactly where to start digging.
Genre: Thriller