Promises to Keep is my fifth novel and is a story of a young man, John Steele, who almost died with a dreaded disease of his day, Cholera. His wife, Lucy, and son, Beau, both died while he survived.

Seeking to find himself, he leaves his home town and moves to an island where he and his father had spent so much time fishing as a young boy. It is here where he begins a new life and finds hope and purpose for his life once again.

It is a story full of action, adventure, and lore that kept so many islanders living there even with the hardships of being isolated from the mainland.

An historical representation of North Carolina's outerbanks.