<p>Robert Rab Munro's only refuge is the sea.</p><p>Aboard the Dundee clipper Grissel Jaffray Munro's sailor life of brawls and brothels is a familiar chaos until a mysterious card inscribed with religious verses and a strange castaway challenge everything he knows.</p><p>As the Grissel Jaffray sails through storms both literal and spiritual the card's cryptic changes hint at a divine test. Munro believes that Death awaits him on land. Soon he faces the Seven Deadly Sins personified among the crew - and in himself. With each choice the veil between superstition and truth grows thinner.</p><p>A story of survival and faith Malcolm Archibald's THE BAY OF DECEPTIVE MIST is an allegorical adventure set on the high seas.</p>