Genevieve's hopes of starting a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent are shattered when a body washes up beside the boat, and she recognizes the victim as someone linked to her past--a past she had hoped to keep secret.

"For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has anxiously kept Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery -- about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water's surface. In a lovely twentieth-anniversary...

While researching archaeological sites that may soon succumb to the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill, Faye Longchamp helps a young teenager who has lost everything but a dilapidated old houseboat left to her by her murdered grandmother and uncle.

"Captain Gerald reports to Priscilla that an abandoned houseboat, which had been moored anonymously in Vineyard Haven Harbor, has been discovered in the bay with apparent signs of foul play. Who is the boat's owner, and what happened to him? Many people in town report having seen a man on board with his dog, but no one seems to have so much as a guess as to his identity."--Back cover.

"In the throes of a rough election season, the wife of the town's slickest politician goes missing from the ferry. Victor Fox's chief opponent vows he'll do anything to topple Victor's iron-fisted reign. Could that include kidnapping Fox's wife? Then, Priscilla hears rumors that Victor was seeing another woman, and that "other" woman was on the same ferry as Fox's wife when she vanished. Did Betty Fox take her own life, or meet with foul play? As...

When eleven-year-old Les and his family, accompanied by his friends in the New Sugar Creek Gang and an uncooperative young family guest, take a trip on a houseboat through Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, their faith helps them meet the challenges they encounter.