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Review Amazing adventure stories heralding the courage of every day people coping through tragedy. -- Jan Oshiro, author ofDramatic sea survival and island life stories set in the Caribbean and Hawaiian Islands. -- David Penhallow, author ofI chucked Robert Stone's "Damascus Gate" in favor of reading your book. Great job, Mary. You really nailed it. -- Ziggy Darlow, Screenwriter, Los Angeles, CAThis 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 "Promises," during the late '60s the ketch, "Mercy," sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin Islands. Ciara Malloy inherits her drowned fiance's son, learns a devastating secret about the boy, and faces the most crucial decision of her life. In "Adrift," 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 "Reunion," 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. From the Publisher Dramatic ocean survival and island life stories, in three intertwined novellas. 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. In Child of a Storm, during the late '60s the ketch, Mercy, sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin I