Lights Out

In 1942, darkness became a way of life along Florida’s beautiful Atlantic coast. Behind drawn curtains and shuttered windows, families listened to the radio, watched the horizon and wondered whether the war that had consumed Europe was finally coming for them. It was.

In Lights Out, the second novel in the U-Boats in Paradise series, the tropical beauty of Palm Beach and Jupiter conceals a terrifying new reality. German submarines stalk the shipping lanes just beyond the beaches, turning familiar waters into a battlefield. Merchant ships burn offshore. Every light shining toward the ocean could help an enemy captain find his next target.

The coastline that once welcomed moonlit walks is now governed by blackout orders. Streetlights vanish and homes go dark. Air raid wardens patrol streets where even the smallest flicker of light can bring a sharp knock at the door. Yet darkness hides more than the shoreline.

Lights Out continues the story begun in Fire Off Jupiter, blending history, human drama and mounting suspense against a war that was never as far from American shores as many people believed. In 1942, the most frightening thing about the darkness was not what people could see. It was what they could not.