Ten Thousand Islands - Randy Wayne White

Years ago, a teenage girl who found an ancient gold medallion off Florida's Gulf Coast was later found hanging from a tree. Now, the girl's mother asks Doc Ford for his help when she is terrorized and her daughter's grave is dug up. Doc goes into a world of ancient ritual and modern corruption to find out who wants that medallion. \nGovernment 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. \nNow, years later, the girl's mother is being terrorized with break-ins, phone calls with no one there--and her daughter's grave has been dug up. Somebody wants that medallion.\n \nThe 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...\n \n\n