Turtle and the Mermaid from Singing-Fork Rock

Book excerpt: Somewhere in the Caribbean, passengers and crew on eight different types of vessels, a fishing boat, a cruise ship, a marine patrol vessel, a smuggler’s launch, human-traffickers' boats, an empty fuel tank, a pleasure boat and a yacht, ultimately come together on fictional Little Island. Voyages and lives overlap and interweave, as tropical adventures of doom, death, romance, passion, pain and reunions are revealed. A vision of a mermaid, is recorded and posted to TicTok by Peter, a Little Island fisherman. We hear our individual character's stories involving, murder, human-trafficking, vice, corruption, drug smuggling, mules, teen-pregnancy, and more. Follow as Maya lands in Miami, from GTA, to meet up with Mimi her bff, and Mimi’s new university friends, for a Caribbean cruise, which happens to overlap with the historical soap opera of the Old Governor’s family on Little Island. The last section of each chapter, keeps us caught up with the drama of Maya’s party’s as they and Little Islanders, experience tragedy and intrigue.