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Seychelle Sullivan is unique in the world of tugboat captains in South Florida. The only woman in a tough, demanding profession, she is beginning to question her commitment to the job. She inherited the business from her deceased father who taught her everything she knows. But she believes the salvage business is becoming too competitive and too much of a corporate enterprise. However, a friend needs her help and she is always there for friends. Nestor was piloting a billionaire’s yacht when it ran aground near Key West. He contacted Seychelle, and when she came to Key West to meet him he told her that he was certain that there was a problem with the GPS on the boat. Seychelle doesn’t completely trust to technology and insists on doing her own navigation in addition to turning things over to instruments as many skippers apparently do these days. Nestor also tells her that his boss is angry with him and that he needs this job as he and his wife are expecting their first child. When Nestor is found dead, apparently of a windsurfing accident, his wife convinces Seychelle that no way could that be the case as he was a champion windsurfer. Seychelle is still retained by the owner of the yacht to tow the boat to Miami to be repaired. However she must contend with unscrupulous individuals in competing salvage companies and she begins to believe that Nestor’s death was not accidental. The character of Seychelle continues to evolve from the three previous books. While pretty much of a loner in the past, she begins to question her chosen lifestyle. Her lover wants the relationship to move on and wants to marry. This installment in the life of the young woman could be real turning point. Seychelle and the other south Florida inhabitants of the novels are well-developed characters that become old friends to the reader. While she is strong-minded and in a sometimes dangerous and uncompromising business, Seychelle is not as tough as the image she likes to project. The author has made her a complicated and admirable person. Her adventures on the water are exciting and definitely ring true – no doubt because the author is herself a sailor with many years experience around boats. Christine Kling lives in South Florida on a sailboat. She definitely writes what she knows.
Reviewed by Lorraine Gelly, May 2007
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