Amazing adventure stories heralding the courage of every day people coping through tragedy. -- Jan Oshiro, author of
Dramatic sea survival and island life stories set in the Caribbean and Hawaiian Islands. -- David Penhallow, author of
I chucked Robert Stone's "Damascus Gate" in favor of reading your book. Great job, Mary. You really nailed it. -- Ziggy Darlow, Screenwriter, Los Angeles, CA
This is wonderful work. Actually, this is probably some of the best literary fiction we've had through this imprint. -- Elizabeth vonRentzell, Editor, iUniverse.com, Inc.
You do have a gift. You have great talent as a writer. I hope to see much more from you. -- Joe Ursprung, Kapa`a, Hawaii
Product Description
Perils and inherent dangers of the sea, and of island living, are cloaked behind a facade of sunny beaches, balmy tradewinds and swaying palm trees. Two women fall prey to nature's wrath during inclement tropical weather. In "Child of a Storm," during the late '60s the ketch, "Mercy," sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin Islands. Ciara Malloy inherits her drowned fiancee's son, learns a devastating secret about the boy, and faces the most crucial decision of her life. In the late '90s, underwater photographer Lillian Avery gets "Caught in a Rip" current and swept out to sea off Kauai in Hawaii. In facing death, she identifies strengths she never knew she had. A few years later, in "Hurricane Secret," the two former neighbors from Puerto Rico meet again on Kauai. A hurricane wreaks havoc in both their lives and threatens to expose secrets tightly held since the sinking of the Mercy.
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