Bound to Sea

<P class=MsoNormal style=BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.2in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.15pt>In 1859 Penelope finds herself alone orphaned and widowed. </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.4pt>She learns that her inheritance from father and husband are </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.2pt>invested in a whaling ship complete with captain Micah Daggett. </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt>She casts caution to the winds and sails with the ship as the </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.25pt>captain''s wife. Unexpectedly she falls in love. During the four-year journey they encounter exotic people and places romantic and soul-searching times. Their love is tested by confinement of the ship and </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt>by duties that pull them apart like waves that clash and come </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.25pt>together on foreign shores. A nefarious Fist Mate dies mysteriously </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt>at sea. Penelope suffers a miscarriage. They discover that Micah </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.25pt>has a bastard son in Rarotonga a South Pacific island and take him </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.35pt>with them. Penelope is left behind in Honolulu with the ten-year </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.1pt>old boy while Micah hunts whales in the Bering Sea. Penelope gives </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.35pt>up hope and imagines finding comfort with another man. Micah </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: 0.3pt>returns. Eventually they find their place in the world a safe harbor </SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: black; LETTER-SPACING: -0.1pt>San Francisco.</SPAN><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 11pt><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /></SPAN></P>