Description: John Teschner has written two novels set on the Hawaiian island of Kauai
Teschner Grant/Writing offers development consulting services focused on small- and mid-sized nonprofits.
On an island whose legendary abundance is being tested by new arrivals and new money, three lives converge on one contested plot of land: a native Hawaiian wrestling with an inheritance she never asked for; a tech billionaire desperate to protect his family from the future he is building; and a mysterious operative stranded without past or future by a trauma she is racing to uncover. In this forgotten valley, they can hide from everything... except each other.
Micah Bernt moves to a remote Hawaiian island looking for peace. But when his landlord drowns under mysterious circumstances, Bernt suspects someone may be killing workers doing secretive biotech research high on the slopes of Namahana mountain. As the killer works his way up the chain of command, Michael Lindstrom—the executive in charge—finds himself in a corporate power struggle over a controversial chemical that could launch the next agricultural revolution. To save more lives and solve the mystery, th