Booklist Review

When Jessica Gregory loses her teaching job, she seizes the opportunity to leave her Indiana hometown behind really far behind. For someone who has never left the country, Jessica does a remarkable job of adjusting to life in Phuket, Thailand, making a difference in the lives of her adorable students and making friends at her part-time bartender job. She decides to seek even more adventure during the school break and signs on with the charming Quinn and handsome, if mysterious, Grant, who are sailing across the Indian Ocean. She falls hard for Grant, and it seems to be mutual, but then Jessica's luck runs out in the form of a ship full of Somali pirates. Suspend your disbelief for the first third of the book truly, a transition to a foreign country has never been so easy and your reward will be getting swept along on Jessica's high-seas adventure, which takes her from something good to something very, very bad. As Jessica's inner strength is tested first by pirates, then by heartache you'll be flipping the pages to find out how the story ends.--Maguire, Susan Copyright 2014 Booklist