The Ocean Dip Chronicles: : Book One: A Real Stranger Comes to Town

By J D Edwards

The Ocean Dip Chronicles - Book One
Sometimes the past finds you... even at the beach.

When a weary stranger checks into The Ocean Dip, a quirky condo complex on Daytona's sun-faded shoreline, he's not looking for trouble-he's looking for answers. Haunted by a childhood tragedy and the mysterious murder of his father, he's tracked a trail of secrets to this strange seaside haven. But The Dip has secrets of its own.

There's Jones, the grizzled groundskeeper with a cowboy hat and a thousand-yard stare. Bessie and Mary, former mob wives with sharp tongues and sharper memories. Juan and Bill, the maintenance duo who see more than they say. And then there's the preacher-missing, maybe dead, and definitely not who everyone thought he was.

What begins as a quiet investigation becomes a collision course with buried pasts, hidden brotherhoods, and decades-old crimes that refuse to stay forgotten. As federal agents close in and old ghosts rise, the stranger finds that redemption isn't always clean-and justice isn't always legal.

In A Real Stranger Comes to Town, Book One of The Ocean Dip Chronicles, mystery and memory tangle in a Southern Gothic surfside tale of identity, betrayal, and the long shadow of truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJ1PTW2Q
• ISBN13: 9798292811930
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"