Note: Possibly a genre novel, based on the publisher's description. Verifier should check, and update the author's bibliographic comments as appropriate.

Synopsis: Publisher: "I'm falling in love with you." With those astonishing and unexpected words, Jeff strode away. Carolyn wanted to call him back, wanted to give way to the love that flooded her heart. But this wasn't the time. Before she could think of her own future, she must somehow find out who -- or what -- was behind a mysterious campaign of frightfulness and death. Could a drowned man's hate reach out from a watery grave to threaten the living? Or was someone spreading terror in grotesque revenge? As Carolyn drew closer to the horrifying truth she realized with ghastly certainly that she would be the next victim of the dead captain's curse!