Treasure On Crooked Island - The Rum Cay Adventures, #1

Oliver Hatch and Chelsea Vance make their living carrying tourists, cargo, and occasional trouble across the waters surrounding Rum Cay. Their weathered sloop, the Five Adventures, has handled every charter the Caribbean has thrown at them.

Then Quinn Perez arrives with an old map and a story about four hundred pounds of Spanish gold.

According to colonial records, the crew of the San Cristóbal buried its treasure on Crooked Island in 1738 while fleeing a British patrol. Quinn believes he has finally identified the volcanic crevasse where it remains hidden. He needs a seaworthy boat, an expert navigator, and a crew willing to take him and his heavily armed partner, Tom Warren, to the island's isolated eastern shore.

The map appears genuine. The clients do not.

Chelsea quickly recognizes that Tom knows more about the island than he admits. Oliver suspects that Quinn's scholarly treasure hunt conceals a much more dangerous operation. Their dependable partner Bert warns them that the men are not merely hiring a boat—they are calculating how much resistance its crew might present.

But the coin Oliver uses to choose uncertain charters lands heads-up, and the Five Adventures sails for Crooked Island.

Once ashore, abandoned expedition equipment and fragments of earlier maps reveal that others searched for the treasure long before Quinn. Some may have found it. None returned to tell the story. As a tropical storm closes around the island, Tom's true intentions emerge, the expedition fractures, and Oliver and Chelsea find themselves separated from their boat and trapped between a ruthless killer, a terrified accomplice, and a fortune that has already cost several lives.

To survive, they must navigate volcanic caves, dangerous coastlines, worsening weather, and a betrayal planned long before they ever left Rum Cay.

Treasure on Crooked Island launches The Rum Cay Adventures, a tropical action-adventure series filled with Caribbean sailing, lost treasure, island mysteries, deadly ambition, and a charter crew whose most dangerous passengers are rarely the ones listed on the manifest.