Coconut Key - E-book - ePub

It is 1984. Coconut Key is a fictitious key north of Key Largo and South of Key Biscayne. Blake Martin has spent his adult life searching for an elusive treasure in South America. He had spent the last couple of years as the island handyman and the local unpublished novelist.            Enter a job to take away some unwanted junk from a dowager's house and Blake's financial situation changes. Some expensive wine and first editions were within the lot.
He's going to forget his life's failures and just enjoy the winter on the key.            That doesn't last long. Within the books is an undistributed novel from the 1940's, edited by a Max Perkins type. He begins to transpose his own manuscript-suffering from narrative-drive maladies-into the structure of the found novel. This sets off an unlikely series of events. He meets the beautiful granddaughter of the dowager, Gina Saxton, who is searching for some lost papers of her grandmother's.
Blake and Gina fall in love. They soon part. Gina is off to New York to help settle her grandmother's estate.  From a coincidental clue in the found novel, he's off to Alabama to search for the treasure he thought was in South America.            Blake's life goes into a tailspin. He makes it back to Coconut Key. Gina returns and together they discover that these almost unworldly coincidences all have a logical common thread.