Maine lobsterman Seth Hoffman and his California friend Montgomery Shek are an odd couple to be lobstering together on the Maine coast, even an odder couple to be robbing expensive yachts while they’re doing it. But Seth’s parents are about to lose their home due to newly raised property taxes, and Monty has a gambling problem – good enough reasons for the two to embark on a series of heists that lead them into no end of trouble.

A rollicking adventure on the often perilous Maine coast, The Good Ship Wormwood takes readers aboard Wormwood’s wooden decks, where the work of hauling traps by day gives way to the thrill of robbing yachts by night. It also highlights one of Maine’s most intractable problems: high taxes driving fishing families from their homes on the coast.

The Good Ship Wormwood is a pirate story for our times.

“As a local lobsterman, this story felt so familiar to me that I was sure I had met the characters myself down at the docks. M.K. Garrison was so accurate in her description of midcoast Maine that I wasn’t sure where the reality stopped and the fiction began!”
– Emily Coffin, fifth generation Maine lobsterman

ISBN:979-8-9980365-0-7