A Drop in the Ocean

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD FICTION LARGE PUBLISHER (2016)</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>GOLD: SARTON WOMEN'S BOOK AWARD CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016)</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS) BEST FICTION AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016)</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>SILVER: READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WOMEN'S FICTION </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On her 49th birthday Anna Fergusson Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future uncertain on impulse she rents a cabin for a year on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. However Turtle Island alive with sea birds and nesting Green turtles is not the retreat she expected. Here she finds love-for the eccentric islanders who become her family; for Tom the laid-back turtle whisperer; and for the turtles whose ancient mothering instincts move her to tears. But Anna finds that even on her idyllic drop in the ocean there is pain and as the months fly past her dream for a new life is threatened by a darkness that challenges everything she has come to believe about the power of love. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><span>??</span>Evocative and thought-provoking </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Drop in the Ocean</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a story about second chances and hard lessons learned in the gentlest of ways.</span></p>