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Bonnie is 24 and a voluptuous single mother of two boys when she falls in love with articulate, identical twin ex-vet medics. After they become partners in her soft-crab business on Maryland's upper eastern shore, she is pregnant. DNA tests reveal the biological father is not one of them. The subsequent hunt for the real father leads to a suspenseful roller-coaster ride. Mistrust, ingenuity and persistence to seek the truth prove in the end, You Can Be As Good As You Can Be, and Be Better Than You Are.
Why does a rich, handsome, ambitious and talented 26-year old former SEAL settle in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, and unknowingly carry a rare dagger around his waist? Want to know more about antiques, auctions, starting your own business, planning for the future? What are your chances of finding something worth $75,000 every Wednesday at a country auction? What happens when a murder results from a rare dagger from Baghdad, worth over a million dollars? Why is it that a homicide brings out the worst and the best in people? Why is it that a possible murderer on the loose is easier to explain, but difficult to comprehend fully, in a small town where everyone knows the suspects involved? Is the suspected foul play a crime of passion, revenge, theft, or just malice aforethought? $ Betterton has a storyline that will have you yearning for more. Author Joseph Szymanski takes the reader on a racer-dip of suspense and uncertainty in a cliff hanger that will take your breath away! ANSWERS INSIDE!
Frustrated over his failure to sell antiques in Betterton, a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, Mark Hopkins, a handsome, rich and bright 27-year old former SEAL, decides to become a private art dealer and buys a farm outside Rock Hall, near the Eastern Neck Island Wildlife Refuge. Two weeks later he discovers an important impressionist painting in an antiques store in Baltimore, which he buys for $10,000 and sells for $329,000. His joy, however is short-lived when his father dies unexpectedly, forcing him to take over operation of his family's steel mill in Baltimore. After the funeral, his death is ruled "by suspicious means." A subsequent murder resolves everything, with at least two gorgeous women always competing for his love. The characters are strong, with a storyline that reads like a movie script.
This saga centers around the Chesapeake Bay and Mark Hopkins, a charismatic former SEAL, who juggles his family life with running a steel mill (Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point), leasing part of the land to a research institute for the study of nudity, and wheeling and dealing in art. After finding a Remington bronze in a thrift store, which is sold for a $450,000 profit, his steel mill is sabotaged by a millionaire to avenge the court martial of his corrupt son. Woven into the overtly-comic storyline are several protégés: a hair-stylist who's transformed into a TV astrological forecaster; a tech writer, into a cabaret singer; and a knuckleball pitcher, into a pro-baseball scout whose first discovery is a young Navajo catcher from Taos, NM. The action, suspense and pace are crafted to have you turning pages to see what happens next. Expect suggestive double-entendre one-liners to tickle your funnybone.
"I can see no reason why it wouldn't make a good movie. The frame work is certainly there." Paul Gregory, legendary agent and producer. ABERDEEN begins on the Chesapeake Bay with the wedding of Ruth Wayne, a gorgeous flight attendant, and Mark Hopkins, a rich and intuitive former SEAL Lieutenant who owns Ridgefield Farm outside Rock Hall on the upper eastern shore of the Bay and runs his familys steel mill in Baltimore. With the help of his staff, he establishes a refuge for Red Cross medics injured in combat; discovers a Pollock painting worth millions; changes a hair stylist into a radio talk show hostess; proves that a canister of mustard gas came from Edgewood Arsenal, leading to a Captains court martial; and funds a live film-shoot of a carnival fortune teller and the development of an electronic buoy to monitor pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. One things for sure: life is never boring in ABERDEEN. Its the finale of a trilogy, with 75 characters, ending with the birth of a foal named Stormy Alex and rise of a farm boy with a nasty knuckleball to the big leagues. ABERDEENs legacy: You Can Be Better than You Are.