Joseph John Szymanski: 5 books

Why does a rich, handsome, ambitious and talented 26-year old former SEAL settle in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, and unknowingly carry a rare dagger around his waist? Want to know more about antiques, auctions, starting your own business, planning for the future? What are your...

Frustrated over his failure to sell antiques in Betterton, a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, Mark Hopkins, a handsome, rich and bright 27-year old former SEAL, decides to become a private art dealer and buys a farm outside Rock Hall, near the Eastern Neck Island Wildlife Refuge. Two weeks later...

"I can see no reason why it wouldn't make a good movie. The frame work is certainly there." Paul Gregory, legendary agent and producer. ABERDEEN begins on the Chesapeake Bay with the wedding of Ruth Wayne, a gorgeous flight attendant, and Mark Hopkins, a rich and intuitive...

This saga centers around the Chesapeake Bay and Mark Hopkins, a charismatic former SEAL, who juggles his family life with running a steel mill (Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point), leasing part of the land to a research institute for the study of nudity, and wheeling and dealing in art. After...

Bonnie is 24 and a voluptuous single mother of two boys when she falls in love with articulate, identical twin ex-vet medics. After they become partners in her soft-crab business on Maryland's upper eastern shore, she is pregnant. DNA tests reveal the biological father is not one of them. The subsequent...