

“You should not be going to sea in a boat you have no business trying to sail. Crazy.” My mom has lived in the United States longer than Rachel and I have been alive, but German words frequently slip into her speech, particularly when she’s stressed.

Anna is part fearless and part desperate for some kind of release from her grief, but all fierce.Īnna’s mother and sister think she’s lost her mind. I can’t imagine taking on anything so daunting. Anna inherited the boat in Ben’s will and has decided to commence Ben’s planned trip by herself. He had been fixing up a sailboat, an Alberg (as yet unnamed) and planning on sailing it from their home in Fort Lauderdale to the Turks and Caicos Islands, a journey of some 1700 nautical miles.

However, if they are not a barrier, I can heartily recommend this book.Īnna Beck is still grieving the death of her fiance, Ben Braithwaite, by suicide some ten months before the book begins. To stretch my punny metaphor even further, come on in, the water is fine!įloat Plan deals with some tough topics and for that reason, I do recommend readers note the Content Warnings I have included. I was so excited to see you dip your toe (see what I did there?) into adult contemporary romance with Float Plan. You wrote a lot of YA books in the interim, not all of which were romances. Way back in the day I read Something Like Normal and I’ve been a fan of your work ever since – albeit that I stick to the romance titles because I need my HEA. CWs: Discussion of death by suicide, mental illness, disability
