Adventure On White High Island

About the Book

The summer of 1991 will be an exciting one for twelve year old HEIDI SMITH. She arrives at her trailer new Lake Nyona, nine miles south of Rochester, Indiana, unaware of the adventure that awaits her. Anxious to see the lake, she runs to the dock behind her mobile home, and overlooking the mysterious White High Island, a huge forest across the lake. She is surprised when she sees a powerful blue light flickering on the island. Is it flickering in a resident's home? Are there any homes on the island? Rumors say that HANS BACHMANN, a prisoner of war during World War Two and former aide to Germany's Adolph Hitler is living there. She asks her friend CRAIG MARKEY to go to the island with her and her ten year old brother SCOTT, but, when he doesn't come to the dock as he promised, she and Scott row to White High Island alone to investigate. She gets there and begins to climb the steps leading to the top. Suddenly, she trips on one. She looks down and sees a small white book. Who does it belong to? She opens it to the middle and reads that it belongs to Bachmann. But that doesn't prove he is living on the island. does it? After discovering the diary, she investigates further. She pushes through the underbrush and comes to a clearing. She steps through it and is surprised. She sees the shape of a roof she thinks is a home, but when she gets to the front window, she sees the blue light she saw flickering and realizes it is someone's laboratory. A man is hunched over a log table mixing something, She tries to take a breath but she can't because of the smell. Surprised that she saw the man she runs to the back and looks into a window. She sees that Craig is lying bound and gagged on the floor. She returns to where Scott is waiting for her. She tells him to go to her friend's cottage and call CHIEF JIM MARKEY, the village police chief and Craig's dad. He returns with the chief. She watches him try to arrest Bachmann. He surprises her and lunges toward the door, where he opens it and escapes.

About the Author

Jane Davis Smith (Maxwell) was nominated to receive the Presidential Seal of Honor by THE AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her fourth-generation grandfather served in the Revolutionary War and participated in the Battle at Yorktown. She has her grandfather's Medal of Honor, which was bestowed upon her by the ABI. Her career biography is listed in over 50 reference books. She has been nominated Woman of the Year by the ABI and International Woman of the Year by the International Biographical Centre In Cambridge, England. Jane's second cousin was Broadway producer and playwright, John Maxwell. Her articles have been published in THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS and PARENTGUIDE magazine in New York and CENTRAL COAST PARENT, a magazine in California.