Ten Thousand Islands — Randy Wayne White

Government-agent-turned-marine-biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida's Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then she began having nightmares. Then she was found hanging from a tree.

Now, years later, the girl's mother is being terrorized by break-ins, phone calls with no one there-and her daughter's grave being dug up. Somebody wants that medallion.

The search for answers will lead Doc through a shadowy world of ancient ritual and modern corruption, to an evil that was born in the past--but lives in the present....