In The Strange Tale of Billy McGinty, Billy relates a tale of the history of his great-great grandmother, a U-Boat captain, some benevolent Scots, a badger, and a sack of gold mysteriously found in the woods of western Scotland.

Wiley Traylor is an amateur writer who writes for fun. Born a long time ago in a small town in Louisiana, he now abides in Tennessee where he spends his retirement thinking about and writing stories of adventure with an element of mystery and developing characters whom he would like to meet one day.