CHINCOTEAGUE – Chilly Winds: A Chincoteague Intrigue, has been named the Best Adventure Novel of the Year by the jury of the 2021 American Fiction Awards. The novel tells the story of Eustace ‘Taz’ Blackwell, a former diplomat who has moved to the small island of Chincoteague on Virginia’s Atlantic coast to rebuild a life derailed by divorce and the loss of a once-promising career. Fortunately or not, the quiet life he had hoped for on the island is quickly overtaken by unlooked-for drama as he finds himself entangled in two intrigues, one close to home and the other in his former diplomatic stomping ground, the global Arctic.  Read the complete press release here.