The second book in Douglas Quinn's Ancestry novels, Samuel The Pioneer, the son of Cornelius The Orphan, goes on a mission to find and rescue his sister who, as a child, was taken by the Indians and sold to the French, deals with an unscrupulous businessman and his family and is present at the British attempt to recapture Port Royal from the French.

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.

When a girl from Summer McPhee's school named Missy Reynolds is accused of stealing things from around Ocracoke Village, Summer doesn't believe it. Summer sets out to prove Missy's innocence. However, in her zeal to help, her investigation backfires, and it appears that maybe Missy Reynolds is guilty of what they say. Even so, Summer still believes the girl is innocent. With the help of her friend Angie, she tries one more time to catch the real culprit. Everyone is surprised when they uncover the real story of The Midnight Skulker.

When his dad takes Quinn to visit his Aunt Kim and cousin Summer McPhee at Ocracoke Village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, little does Quinn realize the adventure awaiting them. Once there, Quinn discovers that his Aunt Kim is unable to pay the mortgage and is about to lose her home. Soon, Quinn and Summer come up with a crazy idea. If they can find the buried treasure of the infamous pirate known as Blackbeard, which is supposed to be buried somewhere on Ocracoke Island, they can save the house. There are two big problems. Treasure hunters have been looking for Blackbeard's treasure for over three hundred years and still haven't found it. The second problem is a man named Pegleg Peterson, who claims to be a descendant of one of Blackbeard's crew, and who has been looking for the treasure all his life. Pegleg Peterson is not a nice man and doesn't appreciate any competition, especially from kids. Will Quinn and Summer find the buried treasure before Pegleg Peterson? Or is the treasure lost forever, never to be found?

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?

When Quinn's new neighbor, Vaughn Taylor, told him that the kids in his class at school said the house at the end their road was haunted, Quinn just laughed. Quinn had ridden his bike down to the house many times and, while it was old, falling apart and spooky looking, he assured Vaughn that the place was certainly not haunted. To prove it, one Friday evening after school, Quinn, Vaughn, Reggie and Demian took the one-mile bike ride to the end of their road and found out that maybe Vaughn's classmates were correct. By the time they'd raced home, they were both frightened out of their wits. "I told you it was haunted," Vaughn said. Quinn Higgins didn't know what to make of their weird experience, but he was determined to get to the bottom of The Case of the Haunted House.

When Quinn travels to visit his father in Oregon, he discovers that the bear who has been raiding the log cabin's trash bins may not be a bear at all. What kind of bear runs away on two feet? And are all bears that big? Quinn Higgins and his friend, Charlotte "Little Dove" Evans, pair up to solve the mystery. Have they discovered the secret of the mysterious creature known as Bigfoot? Not to worry. Quinn Higgins, Boy Detective, is on The Case of Bigfoot on the Loose.

Life is good for Webb Sawyer. Until he gets hit over the head in the Nags Head Pier parking lot. Until a mercenary from Columbia, and three of the Columbian's friends try to kill him and burn down his house at Blue Heron Marsh. Until his son goes missing while trying to track down the killer of a university professor, a murder for which his son Preston is under suspicion.

When Webb and Preston's girlfriend, Sunshine Bledsoe, work together to discover what happened to Preston, what they discover goes far beyond the professor's murder.

"Quinn's ability to craft rich characters, coupled with an entertaining storyline, will have readers looking for the next Webb Sawyer book, Pelican Point."
-Mary Ellen Riddle, The Coast Magazine

"Blue Heron Marsh is one of those rare 'I don't want to put it down ' books."
-Victoria Tarrani, Amazon Reviewer

"Action packed from beginning to end, I was totally surprised by The Spanish Game's ending."
-Harrine Freeman, PhD, Book Reviewer

"Prepare yourself for the ultimate action movie when you read The Catalan Gambit by Douglas Quinn."
-Tyrone Vincent Banks
Author of Under the Melting Pot