Washoe County Library System

A sultry love story set along the Italian Riviera about a beautiful young socialite desperate to hide her past and a journalist with his own dark secrets who is determined to save her.

Since catering themed events is a good way to make extra cash, Val agrees to board the Titanicor at least cater a re-creation of the doomed journey on a yacht. The owner of the yacht, who collects memorabilia related to the disaster, wants Val to serve the last meal the Titanic passengers ate . . . while his guests play a murder-mystery game. But it is the final feast for one passenger who disappears from the ship. And thats only the tip of the iceberg....

Captain Ron is a vagabond seaman who charts a course for comedy when he skippers the newly inherited Caribbean yacht of a corporate executive and his family.

Successful businessman John Silverwood and his wife, Jean, both experienced sailors, decided the time was right to give their four children a taste of thrilling life on the high seas. And indeed their journey aboard the fifty-five-foot catamaran Emerald Jane would have many extraordinary and profound moments. Yet rather than flourishing amid the new freedoms and responsibilities thrust upon them, the children were sometimes confused, frightened, resentful....

In this journalistic masterpiece, the authors reconstruct Crowhurst's last journey. They reveal that he had radioed messages from his supposed round-the-world course, but had in fact had never left the Atlantic.