Adventure and mysteries, a world of sailing and high seas, exotic islands, fear, love and betrayal -- these novels have it all. Based on real events, the locales are tangible and the characters three-dimensional in these page-turner novels whose main drawback is that they end too quickly. Zoë discovers she's in love with a woman, captain Sue finds herself in a web of international art smugglers and Janet unearths family skeletons and the history of salt on a sabbatical on Providenciales. The Caribbean, Greek Islands, the magic South Pacific: you can visit them and live vicariously through the spellbinding tales presented by Magdalena Zschokke, a 12 year sailing veteran and Coast Guard licensed 100 Ton captain.

Losing someone is never easy. Particularly, if the loss happens in the middle of the Pacific with questions of responsibility unsolved. Ex-captain Sue Fuller drowns the memory in alcohol and menial jobs on Molokai, Hawaii. Even that pathetic existence shatters when a former crew swears he has seen Clara, alive, and an ex-lover, Maggie, resurfaces asking for help. Before Sue can react Maggie is murdered Sue emerges from self pity to face the fact of having been manipulated and victimized by her own lust and bitterness to become an unwitting accessory to an international smuggling operation.

Adventure, sailing and exotic harbors are the locales for the lives and loves of the three women sailors and female captains in this tale of the high seas. Whether you dream of sailing the Greek Islands, the Caribbean or the wide-open Pacific, you will be right there, in romantic anchorages and deadly storms along with the women.

Studying history on a Caribbean island Janet McMillan finds she's falling in love with a woman for the first time. But paradise is shattered by a murder, blackmail, a drug delivery missed and a century-old scandal. Passing women, the history of salt, sailing ships, and pirates vie for attention with Caribbean beauty and romance. A brilliant puzzle, Salt Rock Mysteries takes place in the Turks and Caicos Island and depicts an island community with its secrets and family skeletons. Vivid descriptions and three-dimensional characters make this book a Must Read. There is also a German version of Salt Rock Mysteries available - "Salzfelseninsel"

Sequel to Windswept (New Victoria Publishers, 1996), Delayed Paradise takes place in New Zealand. An adventure mystery, it tells the story of three women who have established their own charter business only to find themselves embroiled in deadly local politics. Their individual histories catch up with them in a fiery conflagration. The novel navigates the stormy waters of new attraction as well as the relational doldrums of habit. Sometimes, being off-shore in a hurricane would be preferable to facing the complications of relationships. Why can't Mara live with Olivia if they say they love each other; or: what does love have to do with proximity? Or political and ethical beliefs, for that matter? At which point does pure sex turn to love and can anyone avoid the trap?