In the dead of night, a blacked out plane flies over a river in coastal Georgia where moments later, a man is shot and left for dead. On a secluded two-lane road nearby, a woman is killed in a one-car accident. Atlanta Realtor Abbey Taylor Bunn plunges into action to find out what’s going on because the events seem to have one thing in common: the hunting and fishing club co-founded by her grandfather.

Local photographer Sandy Dimke has just published Cats of Beaufort, a book she wrote and illustrated as a fundraiser for Tabby House.

Beaufort’s newest bookstore offers up the stuff of dreams.

Story and Photos by Mark Shaffer

“Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.”

― Stephen King, The Waste Lands