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Juno Beach · Florida

John M. Henry

Fables for the kids. A true ride for the wanderers. Treasure for everyone.

The Catalog

Four books. One coast.

Illustrated fables, a true eleven-thousand-mile ride, parable continuations, and a novel of the 1715 treasure fleet — all written from the sand where the gold still washes up.

Cover of The Golden Shore: New Fables from Juno Beach by John M. Henry
Illustrated Fables · All Ages

The Golden Shore

New Fables from Juno Beach

Thirty-one new fables in the old style, told in Aesop’s honor — ospreys, loggerheads, ghost crabs, drawn true to life. Built to be read aloud at bedtime. Hold the picture. Ask the moral. One fable, one night, is plenty.

Kindle $6.99 · Paperback $12.99
Cover of Grace Takes the Long Way Home by John M. Henry
A True Story · 11,000 Miles

Grace Takes the Long Way Home

A Novel of Eleven Thousand Miles

One rider, one summer, eleven thousand documented miles — a thousand of them in a single day. Route 66, the Canyon, the coast, and the long way home. A #1 New Release in Motorcycles, July 2026.

Kindle $6.99 · Paperback $14.99
Cover of What Happens Next by John M. Henry
Thirty Continuations · Faith

What Happens Next

Thirty Continuations of the Parables of Jesus

The prodigal son came home — then what? Thirty of the best-known parables, carried one step further. For readers, small groups, and anyone who ever finished a parable wanting one more page.

Kindle $6.99 · Paperback $14.99
Coming 2026 Cover of The Coast of Teeth by John M. Henry
Salt Kingdom · Book I

The Coast of Teeth

A Novel of the Salt Kingdom · Florida, 1715

The treasure fleet is drowned. The gold is the least of it. Someone wrote everything down. Based on the true wrecks of the 1715 Treasure Fleet — the gold still washes ashore at Juno Beach today.

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Coming soon · Salt Kingdom Book I

The Coast of Teeth

“The treasure fleet is drowned. The gold is the least of it. Someone wrote everything down.”

A novel of the 1715 hurricane, the false channel, and the coast that keeps better books than any empire. If you walk Juno Beach after a storm, you already know the setting.

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One free fable. About once a month.

New books, true treasure-coast stories, and one free original fable for joining. No noise — the tide comes in about once a month.

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Portrait of author John M. Henry

From the Golden Shore

John M. Henry writes from Juno Beach, Florida, where Spanish gold from the 1715 fleet still climbs out of the sand after storms. He learned his history the right way — barefoot, on the beaches where it happened.