Synopses & Reviews
A deadly collision at sea and a failed marriage brought former navy lieutenant Ron Williams to the Gulf of Mexico island town of Port Royal. Reduced to running a small commuter ferry; the Dolphin's Run, as he tries to put his shattered life back together; he meets and falls for Shelley Baldwin; an island waitress trapped in an abusive marriage. Dolphin's Run chronicles life, love, friendships and the challenges of living on a small resort island. In a town where everyone literally knows everyone's business; Ron and Shelley soon realize that they are kindred souls; their passion growing each day. Desperate to be as one, they must first endure their secretive love relationship and once together, overcome the challenges of her psychotic revenge-bent ex-husband, tragic losses within Shelley's family and yet another disaster at sea for Ron that she fears he may not have survived.
Rich Sunny Callen is intimately familiar with life in the goldfish bowl of small, island resort towns. As a public safety professional Rich policed their narrow streets, beautiful beaches, coastlines and wild interiors; patrolled the skies above them and explored the depths below them. Drawing on those years, Rich crafts a story of two people whom fate casts together on a little island resort town in the Gulf of Mexico as they struggle to rebuild shattered lives. Rich is the author of Become a 9-1-1 Dispatcher - Your Personal Career Guide; the definitive work for those seeking to enter that exciting profession; he's published two comedy dinner plays Red Murder at Antonio'sand the sequel Trouble at Tremont that community theater groups perform in their local restaurant venues; and a screenplay based on his science fiction novella The Fifth Moon.