Jenna’’s Coin: Book One of the Island Fever series

Barbados 1956 Jenna White, a successful New York attorney, overworked, frustrated, unfulfilled, and tired to the bone, flies off to Barbados for a much needed break. She is be caught up in a series of disastrous events resulting from greed, death, and in the midst of all this, she discovers the love of her life. As she unwinds, enjoying herself for the first time in a decade, Jenna meets and spends time with Ellis, a rich American playboy, Norman, a handsome Aussie derelict, and Quincy, a British charter boat captain. On a water skiing trip, Jenna unearths an old coin on Sandy Lane Beach. It turns out to be an old Spanish Doubloon, one of the infamous Pieces of Eight so often connected with the notorious pirates who frequented the island hundreds of years ago. Innocently showing the coin to her new found water skiing friends at the beach bar, she sets off an explosive chain of events that finds her group of water skiers setting out to locate a long lost treasure. Norman conspires with ex SAS Sergeant Smythe-Caulley, to steal the treasure when it is found. Into the mix charges Quincy, also ex SAS, and the nemesis of Smythe-Caulley. He sweeps Jenna off her feet and champions her search. Greed leads to murder when the small group finds a rotting chest of gold coins on the reef off Sandy Lane Beach. The confrontation between Jenna and Quincy, the hapless bystanders, and the murderous and vengeful Sargent, culminates in a deadly showdown at the abandoned, but still elegant, Farley Hill Plantation House. Stuart Rider lived in the tropics from 1946 to 1960. He spent most of those years, on and off, living on the island of Barbados.

Stuart Leland Rider is a commercial real estate developer, commercial general contractor, lecturer, and author. Over the past 30 years, he has successfully developed 785,000 square feet of commercial office space and 625,000 square feet of retail shopping center space, and currently has active projects totaling 350,000 square feet of retail space. As a general contractor, he has managed the construction of one hotel, one paper manufacturing plant, eight restaurants, three office buildings, three commercial subdivisions, and twenty-three miscellaneous buildings. He is the author of: From Dirt To Dollars, An Entrepreneur’s Guide To Commercial Real Estate Development, currently in use as a textbook for seminars in real estate development. The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Investing In Real Estate, editions one and two, The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Investing In Fixer Upper, Great Big Book on Real Estate, Entrepreneur Press. The Millionaire Homeowner, Entrepreneur Press. The Great Big Book For Landlords and Property Managers, Entrepreneur Press. Two books in the works: After the bubble a joint venture with Barbara Getty - Residential real estate in the new reality. Jenna’s Coin Book One of The Tropical Heat Series Before becoming a real estate developer, Rider worked as a construction superintendent and later as a real estate analyst for a major life insurance company in its real estate investment department. His area of responsibility included company-owned real estate (foreclosed properties) and new joint ventures. He continues to be active in real estate development and consulting and offers seminars in real estate development and investment for individuals and groups. Rider lives in Arizona, and in his spare time, he can be found scuba diving as far as possible from his desert home.