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The Point
Second Edition (slightly different ending) Coast Guard Master Chief Ginetti has recently passed away. He left his boat, the Undine, and its logs, to his son Charles Ginetti, who never had time to go out on the boat with his dad. The will stipulates that Charles go out on the Undine to read the logs. Charles is a Silicon Valley icon who started a business and built it up from scratch. He decides to read the logs while sailing the Undine from Santa Cruz to San Francisco to see his daughter. But Charles' lack of experience quickly lands him in trouble. Sierra Marney is a fourth generation lighthouse keeper. Her family has been tending the Pigeon Point lighthouse since 1872. She lives a solitary life at the isolated station on the windswept Northern Pacific coast. When Charles founders onto the rocks at Pigeon Point, Sierra may be the only one who can save him.
350 pages, Paperback
First published August 28, 2012
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About the author
J.T. Kalnay
14 books4 followersJT Kalnay is an attorney and an author. He has been an athlete, a soldier, a professor, a programmer, an Ironman, and mountain climber. JT now divides his time between being an attorney, being an author, and helping out with seven children.
JT was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Growing up literally steps from the Bay of Quinte, water, ice, fishing, swimming, boating, and drowning were very early influences and appear frequently in his work.
Educated at the Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa, the University of Dayton and Case Western Reserve University, JT has spent countless hours studying a wide range of subjects including math, English, computer science, physics, and law. Many of his stories are set on college campuses.
JT is a rock climber and can often be found atop crags in West Virginia, California, Mexico, and Italy. Rock climbing appears frequently in his writing.
JT has witnessed firsthand many traumatic events including the World Trade Center Bombing, the Long Island Railroad Shooting, a bear attack, a plane crash, and numerous fatalities, in the mountains and elsewhere. Disasters, loss, and confronting personal fear are common themes in his writing.
While "boy meets girl" appears to be JT's dominant genre, readers will experience a variety of styles and themes in his simple yet complex writing.
JT has been writing novels for 25 years and has only recently began to release his work under his own name. See if you can recognize his work!
JT was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Growing up literally steps from the Bay of Quinte, water, ice, fishing, swimming, boating, and drowning were very early influences and appear frequently in his work.
Educated at the Royal Military College, the University of Ottawa, the University of Dayton and Case Western Reserve University, JT has spent countless hours studying a wide range of subjects including math, English, computer science, physics, and law. Many of his stories are set on college campuses.
JT is a rock climber and can often be found atop crags in West Virginia, California, Mexico, and Italy. Rock climbing appears frequently in his writing.
JT has witnessed firsthand many traumatic events including the World Trade Center Bombing, the Long Island Railroad Shooting, a bear attack, a plane crash, and numerous fatalities, in the mountains and elsewhere. Disasters, loss, and confronting personal fear are common themes in his writing.
While "boy meets girl" appears to be JT's dominant genre, readers will experience a variety of styles and themes in his simple yet complex writing.
JT has been writing novels for 25 years and has only recently began to release his work under his own name. See if you can recognize his work!
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November 7, 2019
Good Ghost Story
Kept me guessing and I liked the story. I actually wished it was longer. I didn't like the author used the word "Said" too many times.
Kept me guessing and I liked the story. I actually wished it was longer. I didn't like the author used the word "Said" too many times.
September 18, 2012
Multifaceted Intrigue
The Point has as many facets as the amazing lighthouse lens which is one of the several illustrations in this irresistible tale.
Sierra is the winsome, beautiful, slightly spinsterish keeper of a hundred and fifty year old lighthouse on a remote piece of the fog bound California coast. Charles Ginetti is a rich, somewhat nerdy Silicon Valley entrepreneur and definitely not a sailor. However, when his father dies leaving his beloved sailboat and ship's logs, something powerful compels Charles to sail alone from Santa Cruz to San Francisco. A Pacific storm wrecks him at the Pigeon Point lighthouse which is completely isolated from civilization as much by its remoteness as the stormed damaged road. Sierra and the Portuguese couple who assist her reluctantly give him shelter until he can find a way back to reality. But does he want to go?
The events that carry The Point to its stunning conclusion are a brilliant meld of romance, adventure, loss, redemption, wit and the paranormal. JT Kalnay has outdone himself. Do not miss this one.
The Point has as many facets as the amazing lighthouse lens which is one of the several illustrations in this irresistible tale.
Sierra is the winsome, beautiful, slightly spinsterish keeper of a hundred and fifty year old lighthouse on a remote piece of the fog bound California coast. Charles Ginetti is a rich, somewhat nerdy Silicon Valley entrepreneur and definitely not a sailor. However, when his father dies leaving his beloved sailboat and ship's logs, something powerful compels Charles to sail alone from Santa Cruz to San Francisco. A Pacific storm wrecks him at the Pigeon Point lighthouse which is completely isolated from civilization as much by its remoteness as the stormed damaged road. Sierra and the Portuguese couple who assist her reluctantly give him shelter until he can find a way back to reality. But does he want to go?
The events that carry The Point to its stunning conclusion are a brilliant meld of romance, adventure, loss, redemption, wit and the paranormal. JT Kalnay has outdone himself. Do not miss this one.
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