The sharks are real.
Your family is worse.
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This September, the water
started keeping score.
Every Labor Day the Pophams descend on the family compound — to drink too much, dock the boat badly, and ignore the grandmother at the bottom of the lawn.
By the time the causeway floods and the island cuts itself off, the family has bigger problems than who forgot to call Gram on her birthday. The great white cruising the Sound has been trained, all season, to come when the dinner bell rings. And someone on this point has been ringing it.
One road runs onto Mooncusset, and it floods at high tide. After that, the family leaves the way the tide decides — one at a time.
JAWS with a body count of in-laws — Friday the 13th meets Succession with a Bad Monkey voice. A Cape Cod horror story about a family that finally gets the summer it deserves.
Tanner Vinick had not brushed his teeth in nine days, and he wanted the internet to know why.
He propped the GoPro on a knuckle of driftwood, angled up at a sunrise that had not shown up yet. The water sat flat and black and very quiet. Out past the sandbar nothing moved — which on the Cape in September is not the same as nothing being there.
One causeway in. It floods at high tide. After that, the only way off the island is the way the family is leaving — one at a time.
The great whites really came back to Cape Cod — the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy tracks them live. The book is the only part we made up.
Each one is left a card — handwritten, passive-aggressive, fatal. Nobody will say who's been writing them.
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A Lake Como Wedding Story
The family crosses an ocean for the wedding. There are no sharks in Lake Como — everyone agrees on that, right up until the guest list starts going down. Twenty-nine came up the lake. A hundred-year-old blessing, stitched in thread, already knows how many leave.
JAWS at a black-tie wedding — Succession by way of a haunted Italian lake.
Get the Voto di Sangue advance copy →The cursed deck the Pophams can't stop dealing is a real Cape Cod shark party card game — hidden traitors, too few life preservers, and one question: who's getting fed? Same family. Same water. Coming to Kickstarter.
Enter the water →Stuart Nixdorff splits his time between Boston and Florida, never far from cold salt water. An 18-time Ironman and deep-tech entrepreneur, he knows exactly how a body behaves in a riptide — and has chosen to use that knowledge irresponsibly. Blood Relatives is the first book in the CHUM universe, where the sharks are real and the relatives are worse.