The Secret of the Tara Belle

An eminent discovery lost to the world. A tragic death shrouded in mystery. Can the young Dan Jenkins solve this mysterious puzzle? At a time when his mother is suffering from a debilitating disease, and tensions are ongoing with his grandmother carer, a chance event sets the teenage Dan on a journey to discover the truth about his father, lost at sea many years before.

Set against the backdrop of the beautiful, but sometimes turbulent seas of the southwest coast of England, this story follows Ben's increasingly desperate search for answers to his hidden history: the father he so missed, and the controversial scientific work he had left behind. Will Ben discover the truth? Despite the trepidation he feels about what he might

find, Ben knows he must follow the clues wherever they lead, in order to full, what will become, his all-consuming desire.