title: Black Water Tales: The Secret Keepers (Volume 1)
author:  JeanNicole Rivers 
description: I was born in the tiny, but lovable town of Centralia, IL which has a two screen movie theater, one high school and still celebrates May Fete, so I had no choice, but to develop a fantastic imagination. Since childhood I have been writing everything from short stories to songs, but I have always aspired to compose a novel. Black Water Tales: The Secret Keepers is my first novel and the first book in what will be a series of thriller novels. Meeting diverse and interesting people are exciting to me and as a result I have taken to writing executive biographies in my spare time. Philosophy was my study in college and I received a Bachelor of Arts in the subject from Florida International University. Writing is one of my most favored artistic pursuits, but my love for the arts does not stop there, I am also a vocalist and actress and participate in local theater in Houston, Texas.
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  Rivers of Ice
  
  
  Chapter I. THE ROVER'S RETURN.
  
  Chapter II. THE SEAMAN TAKES THE “CABIN” BY
  
  
  SURPRISE AND STORM.
  
  Chapter III. DIFFICULTIES AMONG THE SOCIAL SUMMITS.
  
  
  Chapter IV. SHOWS HOW THE CAPTAIN CAME TO AN
  
  
  ANCHOR, AND CONCEIVED A DEEP DESIGN.
  
  Chapter V. IN WHICH SEVERAL IMPORTANT MATTERS ARE
  
  
  ARRANGED, AND GILLIE WHITE UNDERGOES SOME REMARKABLE AND HITHERTO
  
  
  UNKNOWN EXPERIENCES.
  
  [Chapter VI. A LESSON TAUGHT AND
  LEARNED.](Rivers%20of%20Ice_split_001.html#filepos124540)
  
  [Chapter VII. THE GREAT WHITE
  MOUNTAIN.](Rivers%20of%20Ice_split_001.html#filepos138758)
  
  [Chapter VIII. INTRODUCES THE READER TO VARIOUS
  
  
  PERSONAGES, AND TOUCHES ON GLACIERS.
  
  [Chapter IX. A SOLID STREAM.](Rivers%20of%20Ice_split_001.html#filepos182805)
  
  [Chapter X. THE FIRST
  EXCURSION.](Rivers%20of%20Ice_split_001.html#filepos188664)
  
  [Chapter XI. THE PURSUIT OF SCIENCE UNDER
  
  
  DIFFICULTIES.
  
  [Chapter XII. IN WHICH GILLIE IS SAGACIOUS, AN
  
  
  EXCURSION I