Summary

Discover why and how a 58 year old woman decides to transplant herself from a stable suburb to a small island in the Aegean. ‘Dead Reckoning’ tells a tale of a woman leading a perfectly normal life as a wife and a mother of three adolescent children in an upscale suburb of New York City until her life catapults into an unforeseen abyss. Relatively quickly she looses her father, then husband and finally mother while struggling to raise her three children with some semblance of calm. Through her education of the Greek Classics and her heritage as part Cherokee, she looks through these lenses to make sense of her shattered world. She develops a strong sense of self and after raising her children to adult hood; she embarks on her own adventure, creating a new life rich with an inner peace. With fortitude and courage, she buys a small house on the island of Syros, acquires Greek Residency Permit and moves. (Word count = 66,317)

Genre: Adventure

Author: kc2124

Status: Complete

Chapters: 37

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

Prologue

I grew up in a coastal village near Cape Cod. My dad taught me to sail as a child on a wide hulled 14-foot Cat Boat. Later, as a teenager, on a thirty-six foot, gaff rig schooner, he trained me to navigate by dead reckoning through pea soup fog, Cape Cod to Buck’s Harbor, Maine.

The natural force of wind sets a sailboat in motion. The direction of the wind determines its course. To discover the boat’s current position, use its previous locations and advance them based on the boat’s speed, time and its course. Dead Reckoning.

Unforeseen, natural forces set my life in motion from a mother and wife in New Jersey, to sailing solo through the Aegean Sea. Looking back at it now, yes, seven positions determined my current position.

Syros – New York