"Cronin has built a world that you wonāt want to sail away from!" āJuliette Fay, USA Today Bestselling author Loner James Malloy is a ferry captaināor used to be, until he was unceremoniously fired and replaced by Courtney Farris. Now, instead of piloting Brenton Islandās daily lifeline to the glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days beached, bitter, and bored.
When he discovers a private golf course staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such āimprovements.ā But despite Brentonās nickname as āCooperation Island,ā heās used to working solo. To keep rocky bluffs, historic trees, and ocean shoreline open to all, heāll have to learn to work with other islandersāincluding Captain Courtney, who might just morph from irritant to irresistible once James learns a secret thatās been kept from him for years.
This salt-sprayed fourth novel by 2004 Olympic Sailor Carol Newman Cronin celebrates wilderness and water, open space and open-mindedness, and the redemptive power of neighborly cooperation.