Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Where I am now

In my book SAIL, I'm following the main characters, Dr. Katherine Dunne, her daughter Carrie and son's Ernie and Mark. Dr. Dunne is a widowed mother of three who remarried a wealthy and famous millionaire lawyer Peter Carlyle. Dr. Dunne's husband Stuart died in a scuba diving accident off their sail boat "The Family Dunne" Dr. Dunne had a secret affair with her deceased husbands brother Jake while she was married. The story starts off with a couple of drunk guys fishing off a rented charter boat in the Bahamas, when they catch a tuna and bring it to shore. On shore the men take a picture with the upside down tuna and a bottle falls from the tuna's mouth with a message in it. The Captain reads the message, "The Dunne Family is Alive". The story suddenly moves to Dr. Dunne contemplating taking a trip on "The Family Dunne" and to try to restore her broken family after her husbands death. There is a lot of conflict between the kids who are acting out and leaving their mother at her wits end. Carrie is suicidal, Mark is a pot head and Ernie is a young genius. Peter seems like a straight guy and wishes the family off. This is the first time in three years that "The Family Dunne" has seen water and the family is ready to set sail for the Bahamas from Cape Cod. They call the trip the Dysfunctional Dunne family vacation. Watching them leave was a man named Devoux. He had only one job, and that was to make people disappear. *****To Be Continued******

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