Rip Converse

Maelstrom is a CIBA semi-finalist for best new suspense/thriller for 2019. A sailing adventure turns into a nightmare and new love is tested by fire. Ryan Cunningham meets a beautiful, younger, mother of two in recovery prior to his departure to the Caribbean and agrees to let them accompany hi...

Callie is two years ahead of her classmates and socially isolated from them by her genius IQ and the principled, ambitious, self-determined approach that she brings to everything she does. She wants to become a commercial ship captain but when her father, a shrimper, refuses to give her needed se...