Set on the Outer Banks and Albemarle Sound areas of northeast North Carolina, Swan's Landing: a Webb Sawyer Mystery is the third novel in this series. When Webb Sawyer's young friend, Sunshine Bledsoe's mother goes missing, then later found buried in someone's back yard, Webb finds himself involved in his most bizarre investigation yet, one that leads him to Swan's Landing, a small rural fishing community in Perqumans County, North Carolina, to New York City, then back to the small town of Hertford, North Carolina where more than one person living there is running from their past.

Charles, the son of Lothar, the dragon keeper, is there at Colshire Castle to assist his father with the birth of Charon and Chaka's dragonling. Once the new addition is old enough, he is to be trained for Prince Barth, the king's son. Much to everyone's surprise and dismay, when the dragonling is born, it is purple. Prince Barth is horrified and wants to kill it. When Charles stops him from doing so, an angry Barth goes to the king about it. Before Barth can act, Charles kidnaps the baby dragon, who he calls Hero, and takes him for safe-keeping to the cave of Magus the Magician, where he decides to train him for himself. Angry about what happened, the king arrests Lothar and throws him in the dungeon. When Charles discovers that Lothar is scheduled for execution by hanging, and that it is all fault, he tries to come up with a plan to rescue his father. Will Charles be able to devise a plan in time? Will the purple dragon survive and be trained in time to help Charles with the rescue? Or will the king and Prince Barth have their way?

Historical Fiction/Adventure--Set in the 17th Century, Cornelius: The Orphan is based on an actual character in the author's ancestry. The author weaves a tale of adventure and mis-adventure as Cornelius Cursonwhit sets off at a young age from New Amsterdam New York], traveling on the high seas to Holland in search of his fortune. After a time of modest wealth, gained by illegal enterprises, he his deceived by his partner and lover, and spends twelve years in a Rotterdam prison, Near the end of his term, Cornelius, through trickery, is conscripted into the Royal Dutch Navy, Cornelius ends up in Bermuda aboard a pirate ship captained by the infamous female pirate, Mary Read, after she saves him from certain death at the hand of his arch enemy, Captain Constantijn Kors. Cornelius finally arrives back in the New World. From Boston he travels to the settlement of Dover where, should he marry a woman for whom he has little interest and to whom he cannot divulge his checkered past, a land grant, and more trouble, awaits him.