PROLOGUE

This story details how a family’s vacation in 1985 became entwined with events that occurred forty years earlier.

Elizabeth and Mark Sanders, along with their children, Lisa, Johnny, and Wayne, planned to spend a fun and relaxing summer at the New Jersey shore. Specifically, they were headed to the large bayfront home of Elizabeth’s parents, Christine and Dylan Masters, on a beautiful barrier island called Seven Mile Island.

This trip began with the family thoroughly enjoying life at the beach, but the holiday soon turned into a historical adventure full of mystery, deceit, murder, action, discovery, and camaraderie.

Although some authentic dates, events, names, and places are referenced from time to time, this intriguing and imaginative tale adds just enough twists and turns to frustrate historians and their long-established portrayals of the Second World War and the fall of Germany’s Third Reich.

Let the adventure begin…

 

 

 

 

With the rain and the thunder

A flash of lightning

Buried down upon the cove

 

The sands cried out

As the waves crashed in

Trying desperately to hold

 

Cursed by Poseidon

Engulfed by the sea

There was no safe port to tie

 

With swells so large

And winds so fierce

No vessels could survive

 

When the storm died out

All had changed

The island was crushed and bruised

 

But buried beneath

Was a frightful tale

Only one could claim as true