The True Story of a Woman's Courage and Survival at Sea.
Twenty days into their idyllic sailing trip in the Pacific Ocean, Tami Oldham and her British fiancé, Richard Sharp, hear news of a hurricane hurtling towards them. With every ounce of strength the couple battle with the elements to avoid disaster, but the hurricane advances relentlessly.
Richard orders Tami below and barely has she secured herself to the table, when she hears him scream over the roar of the wind, followed by a deafening thud. Tami remembers no more, as she is knocked unconscious for twenty-seven hours. When she comes to there is no sign of Richard, the boat is half full of water and most of the supplies have been ruined. There is no land or boat in sight - just thousands of miles of vast, empty ocean.
This is where the real story begins - Tami's astonishing determination and will to live lead her back to civilisation; all with a gaping head wound, broken mast, ruined navigational instruments, no radio contact with the outside world and very limited supplies.
Tami heads for Hawaii, over forty gruelling days' sailing away, which, with no instruments to guide her, appears on the map as little more than a tiny dot in a mass of blue.
Interspersed with flashbacks of her romance with her doomed fiancé, this gripping adventure and survival story offers a reminder that even in our darkest moments we are never truly alone.
