A spoiled rich boy learns a lesson in life when he is swept overboard and then is rescued by a fishing trawler.

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

A twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pothauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah's friends and neighbors in Sulfur Wells are being pressured to make contributions. The problem is, the whole thing is a scam, and Hannah discovers that the museum scam is a front for a real estate power...

Reynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His rare days off lead him to strange encounters?not just with press gangs hoping to fill English ships to fight the coming Spanish Armada, but strangers who seem to know him?one of whom casts a white shadow. The village?s ships are commandeered, and after a fierce battle at sea, Reynard finds himself the sole survivor...

"When Camille Taylor's husband dies unexpectedly, the carefully constructed life she worked so hard to build in Washington, DC, shatters. After struggling for almost a year, she packs up her daughter, and heads for the Alabama coast where she grew up. The salt air and slow rhythm of the coast soothe Camille's spirit, but when she meets local fisherman Mack Phillips, she learns things have changed in her hometown. Runoff from an abandoned development...

A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.

Learning, discovery, and danger all come together to bring a boy to manhood.