Sail On

It is 1969 on a small island in the Caribbean. A body has been discovered at the bottom of a cliff after an unseasonable storm. Is it suicide? Accident? Or something more sinister? Lucas, a young police officer, is investigating.

Lynne, a 17 year-old Australian, has been stranded on the island. She becomes friendly with Lucas’s cousin Arthur, a barman at the Frangipani, and with his assistance she finds work on a game fishing boat during the charter season. It is the charter season because in theory the hurricane season is over. When that job comes to an end, she finds herself talked into going as cook on a yacht, way up the islands with a group of Japanese charterers.

Over the next month, as they sail through the Windwards, Lynne still longs for the Frangipani and thinks a lot about Arthur. But is he thinking of her? Arthur’s aunt Marian, who has raised him from a child, frowns on friendships across racial lines. That way, she says, no-one is getting hurt. So even though he seems rather quiet, presumably he is not thinking of her but of more immediate things. Strange events are happening, including at the Frangipani.

Because as Lucas closes in on the truth, ripples start spreading. The storm to come will affect everyone. There are going to be shipwrecks.

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