Boom, cracked the thunder, almost immediately after the lightning had turned the sky from ink black to so bright you had to squint. The gale was forcing us back towards the treacherous African coastline, on this my first trans Atlantic sail. Truthfully, my first sail ever! Cast ashore in the West Indies, one adventure followed another in this true-life quest to spread my wings. Humor and local color are generously added to the mix. Parents, don't let your daughters leave home until you've read this book.

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Darcy is a normal teenage girl who seems to be facing anything but normal. This young girl feels she has lost it all. Her friends, her home and her life. All because of a sudden death of a loved one on a regular Wednesday afternoon. Darcy realizes that the world is too unpredictable, too devastating and too overwhelming to endure alone. It seems like the whole world is falling apart around her. The dark shadowy past of family strife, collides full force with her ever perplexing present. And still the loneliness of her teenage life takes over as she slowly begins to find many weird discoveries which continue to thrust countless questions into her mind. Was her mother's death really an accident? Who are those men?

Book Three Summary This third novel of the series has short stories that involve the human psychology and relates to people in general ranging from years of the past to modern-day people. It gives one an idea of the struggles of people in their lives here on earth under conditions that are categorized as sinful, as you have read of such the case in book 1 and 2. In these stories, you will find the author describing certain realities that people also face and have a conclusion of the myth or abnormal life of such as the chapters involved in this book tell. This is part of a trilogy, the third series of the TROGS (The Reich of God Sins.) The word Reich pertains to a connection of the people and of God in which the sins of mankind are so abundant in everyday life. Also that there is a means to stay alive and do well each day and survive these times in life. The two, together, form a bond or understanding that sins are a human fault and all people are sinners! God is the one in charge, and if we fall or fail, we are granted that we can get back up and keep trying. After all, being a human and living with sin needs somebody with some compassion, caring, and understanding.