Reader's Submission

This month’s reader submissions are from Tony Wayne Davis and his wife, Diana Rae Davis. These photos were taken on New Hope Road in Elkview, WV.

THE ELK’S JOURNAL

ERIC DOUGLAS RELEASES 11TH NOVEL

Author Eric Douglas has released the 11th novel in the popular Mike Scott thriller series: Held Hostage: Search for the Juncal.

This story takes place primarily off the coast of Mexico as competing groups search for a Spanish shipwreck sunk nearly 400 years ago. The Nuestra Señora del Juncal is a real treasure ship lost in a storm off the coast of Campeche. The Mexican and Spanish governments are currently searching for it. Douglas’ Mike Scott character is a photojournalist who travels the world telling stories for a magazine. All of the Mike Scott thriller novels feature the ocean, scuba diving, exotic locations and the environment. Eric Douglas has been a journalist and writer his entire professional career. Born and raised in West Virginia, he learned to scuba dive in Summersville Lake before moving to California and North Carolina to work in scuba diving. He became a dive instructor and diver medic along the way and has also written about diving for several magazines, including the ongoing Lessons for Life column with Scuba Diving Magazine. Held Hostage is Douglas’s 23rd book overall including fiction and nonfiction works. He estimates he has written nearly one million words in the Mike Scott series. The book is now available in softcover and on Kindle. “Photojournalist Mike Scott is about to get married to the woman he loves — archeologist Frankie DeMarco — but her kidnapping sets Mike on a collision course with the treasure hunter who took her. The man wants Frankie’s help finding a 400-year-old shipwreck, so Mike sets out to find it first to get her back safely. Word of a secret cargo on board raises the stakes even higher.” Find out more at booksbyeric.com