“There’s a hole in our boat!” I yell.
An idea comes to me. I poke my finger into the hole, plugging the squirting artery. “Okay, now what?”
“Um … Would you like me to put my finger in there?” Ivan offers.
“But that’s not a solution, is it? We’re in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! We can’t just keep fingering the hole until we reach land.”
“Good point.”
“So?”
“Duct tape?”
A chance meeting in a San Francisco cocktail bar sparks an instant connection between two opposites: Ivan, a man with an adventurous dream of finding freedom on the ocean aboard his humble sailboat, and Torre, a city girl with a morbid fear of deep water.
As their bond turns to love, Torre realizes the only way to keep the man of her dreams is to embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves goodbye to dry land and braces for a life-changing roller-coaster ride that’s as exhilarating as it is terrifying.
Set against a backdrop of the world’s most beautiful and remote destinations, this sometimes hilarious, often moving, and always breathtakingly brave memoir proves there are some risks worth taking.
