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Sailing Escape: A Cruising Dream Turned Nightmare
Agatha and Ewan McAbe move onto their sailboat Escape to get ready for a cruise around the world. They are sleeping when a savage storm wrecks Dinner Key Marina in Miami. Escape breaks loose, is rammed by other boats and runs aground. Agatha is traumatized during the McAbe’s struggle to survive. Ewan believes Agatha will recover during their trip. She abandons ship at Georgetown, Bahamas and flies to her sister Jean’s house in Miami. Jean despises Ewan and begins working on Agatha to divorce him. Ewan hires wayward lass Ellie Hoyle and venturesome captain Ross Ryan to help sail Escape back to Florida in time to save his marriage. Escape’s crew battles an onboard fire, smugglers and raging gales to reunite the McAbes. Everyone harboring the dream of escaping their mundane lives should read this white-knuckle and often hilarious tale of ocean adventure.
235 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 2015
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About the author
Jeff Lyon
7 books2 followersJeff Lyon writes adventurous tales laced with humor from personal escapades. His stories are based on actual events and filled with extraordinary characters encountered in fascinating locales. Names are changed to protect the far from the innocent, and facts are altered only when needed to avoid the tedium of memoirs.
After graduating from the University of North Texas, Jeff decided to go skiing for a season in Winter Park, Colorado. He stayed for four years. Jeff returned to Texas and worked as a Health Inspector for seven years and then three years as a Fire Marshal for the city of Lewisville.
Jeff moved to Florida with his girlfriend, Karen Reneau, married her, and became a professional boat captain. He spent the next four years running sailboats and power yachts up and down the Atlantic coast from Chesapeake Bay to Trinidad, South America.
Jeff survived twelve winters in Chicago, Illinois. He spent his summers managing DuSable Harbor, captaining other peoples' boats on Lake Michigan, and winters writing.
Dozens of Jeff's travelogues have been published in newspapers and magazines. Jeff's first published novel Hank is a testament to his hillbilly great-uncle. His second novel, Bliss, documents the hilarious growing pains during Lewisville's spectacular building boom. Jeff's third work was Ski Bum Chronicles. It’s a fantastic journey through the wide eyes of a Texas kid living his dream in the majestic Rocky Mountains.
Jeff returned to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He captained yachts and published his fifth novel, Sailing Escape, before moving north four years later.
Living in Charlotte, North Carolina, Jeff veered from personal-experience novels to working on a paranormal trilogy about a Voodoo cursed flip phone that predicts dire accidents and death. The first two have been published, and the third book is well underway.
Jeff currently lives with his wife Karen in Chattanooga, TN, and hopes this will be their last move.
After graduating from the University of North Texas, Jeff decided to go skiing for a season in Winter Park, Colorado. He stayed for four years. Jeff returned to Texas and worked as a Health Inspector for seven years and then three years as a Fire Marshal for the city of Lewisville.
Jeff moved to Florida with his girlfriend, Karen Reneau, married her, and became a professional boat captain. He spent the next four years running sailboats and power yachts up and down the Atlantic coast from Chesapeake Bay to Trinidad, South America.
Jeff survived twelve winters in Chicago, Illinois. He spent his summers managing DuSable Harbor, captaining other peoples' boats on Lake Michigan, and winters writing.
Dozens of Jeff's travelogues have been published in newspapers and magazines. Jeff's first published novel Hank is a testament to his hillbilly great-uncle. His second novel, Bliss, documents the hilarious growing pains during Lewisville's spectacular building boom. Jeff's third work was Ski Bum Chronicles. It’s a fantastic journey through the wide eyes of a Texas kid living his dream in the majestic Rocky Mountains.
Jeff returned to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He captained yachts and published his fifth novel, Sailing Escape, before moving north four years later.
Living in Charlotte, North Carolina, Jeff veered from personal-experience novels to working on a paranormal trilogy about a Voodoo cursed flip phone that predicts dire accidents and death. The first two have been published, and the third book is well underway.
Jeff currently lives with his wife Karen in Chattanooga, TN, and hopes this will be their last move.
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