Tsawwassen author Ian Kent has just released his latest book Westcoast Bounty, a ‘prequel/sequel to a re-publishing of his first historic novel Westcoast Legacy.
Kent said the book completes what he calls his ‘Westcoast Series.’
“Years ago I wrote Westcoast Legacy, which I thought was sort of a one-off thing at the time. It was a 1850s historic novel about Fort Victoria and the west coast of Vancouver Island,” he said. “I introduced a family that came over and she got involved in several different things including the idea of Spanish gold on the west coast and so people kept asking me after I wrote that book, ‘what happened after that?’ so I thought I would write a modern-day sequel and that is Westcoast Bounty.”
Several generations after his great-grandmother Margaret Manson leaves Scotland for the rugged Pacific Northwest, Jack Manson, becomes intrigued when some of the unresolved mysteries of Margaret’s adventures surface.
On a construction site in modern Victoria, workers uncover an old journal and discover it belonged to Jack’s great-grandfather, Margaret’s husband, who was washed overboard and lost on his way to Victoria. Jack rallies his friends and colleagues to help solve the unknowns, especially the reference to Spanish gold in the journal. They work together to decipher the journal and solve a generations-old family riddle from Jack’s family.
“I used to remember talking about things like this as a kid,” he recalled. “The dedication in the book is to my sister because we used to sit around camp fires and talk about this story of a logger who found this cave on the west coast and never had a chance to check it out,” Kent said. “I started researching that and there were things in the ‘30s and ‘40s in the Victoria newspapers that someone found these caves. There is lots of little bits and pieces that I throw into the story.”
Kent has lived and sailed the B.C. coast most of his life, adding to his knowledge of local marine lore and historical details. He lives with his wife Diana near their grandchildren in Tsawwassen.
Kent is also busy working on the third novel in his thriller trilogy Jake Prescott series called Vengeance, which he hopes to release at the end of 2020.
See more on the author at: www.iankentauthor.com.
