Hook Island
An Amanda Dark Adventure
Russ Crossley
Amanda held out the flashlight, but the muddy beam of light barely penetrated the inky, thick darkness more than a few feet ahead. Her heart beat loudly in her ears as she carefully stepped forward on the rickety, wooden dock. She glanced over her left shoulder to see Pierre in the launch he'd used to bring her to this isolated island off the coast of South Carolina. She swallowed hard and for the hundredth time doubted she'd made the right decision.
"Pierre!" she called. "Which way?"
Squinting into the nearly impenetrable darkness, Amanda could just barely make out Pierre’s shape, bathed in the glow from the instruments in the dash of the boat. Pierre had been at first understandably reluctant, but once she flashed a hundred dollar b
