Chesapeake Project

Horn, Phyllis

ISBN 10: 0941483584 / ISBN 13: 9780941483582

Published by Naiad Pr, 1990

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Synopsis:

From cover: "Like the many generations of watermen who have sailed the Mid-Atlantic's storied Chesapeake Bay, Jessie Andrews and her father make

their living harvesting crab from its depths. Jessie's father is murdered - and his shocking, gruesome death contains a symbolic message: his killers are not

finished. They did not find what they sought. Realizing she is in mortal danger, Jessie flees with her lover Meredith. Jessie disguises herself in male

clothing, and finds work on her beloved Chesapeake Bay when Wash, a black waterman, hires her. He tells Jessie, "Sometimes I see things. I know

things...I ought not to know." But even Wash cannot see the full extent of the danger closing in on them."