Day Drinkers

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the author of <em>Zone Trip</em> comes a bold tale of survival identity and the price of secrecy.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From her office window on St. Columba Gemma gazes out at the mysterious pleasure island just beyond the reef. Owned by country music legend Cowboi Rivers the exclusive retreat lures the world's wealthy and powerful with promises of secrecy and illicit pleasures. Meanwhile the locals keep their distance wary of the wild parties and whispered rumors of drugs and disappearing girls.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Desperate to escape her dead-end job Gemma seizes a risky opportunity to captain the sailing vessel </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mariposa</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> for Cowboi's shadowy empire. She finds herself swept into a world of corrupt elites. When a cocaine pickup in the Dominican Republic spirals into a deadly double-cross Gemma and her crew enlist the aid of a Vodou priestess the ghost of a hard-drinking mariner and a rumba-loving boat boy to escape. With her enemies closing in Gemma sails toward Cuba facing a storm that threatens to push her over the edge.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Day Drinkers</em> is where the American dream washes ashore.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Day Drinkers is a tantalizing medley of Saint X and Don't Stop the Carnival seasoned with a dash of The Rum Diary. Drawing from her ten years as a liveaboard sailor and Caribbean travel writer Kitty Turner an American Absurdism revivalist delivers a gripping tale of identity and redemption through her unique talent for rollicking storytelling and deep philosophical inquiry.</span></p><p></p>