Calebs Curse
by Sally Glass
Category: Juvenile Fiction

Calebs Curse, a first novel by Sally Glass, will remind readers of those swashbuckling movies of yore with Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks or, more recently, with Russell Crowe or Johnny Depp. Set in the coastal Carolinas, the story covers nearly two-hundred years of history, from the time the area was the personal playground of pirates through the Civil War to modern day Conway, South Carolina. The protagonists, and there are several, are all members or descendents of the family of John Ian Waters. Through Johns Scottish ancestry, which dates to a druid priest, certain members of the Waters family have been blessed with awesome (and sometimes awful) powers of the supernatural kind. As for the antagonist of this yarn, there can be no doubt: he is the despicable, sociopathic, nearly heartless Caleb Bland. His undying love for the beautiful Annabelle with the emerald-green eyes drives the story, often at a feverish pitch (readers will put Calebs Curse down only reluctantly). As Calebs corpse rots under the oak tree on the island where British soldiers have hanged him, the spirit places a curse on the treasure he had given to Annabelle before her brutal murder.There is betrayal, murder, romance, sex, courage, and humor. No pirate yarn since Treasure Island has had a more exciting climax as the hero dukes it out with the spirit of the vile Caleb.