In John W. Bebout's The Light from Darkness, we meet seventeen-year-old Teddy Miller in Great Tortugas, off the Florida Keys. It’s 1864, during the waning months of the Civil War, and this desolate island is the location of a Yankee prison. Teddy has gone there...

Feed the Crow by John W. Bebout is a historical novel set in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean in the mid-1800s. Weaving fictional characters with historical ones, it follows the adventures and sometimes near-deadly “close calls” of a recently widowed young female Pinkerton detective...