
Origins of When Oceans Rage, My 11th Novel
When Oceans Rage, my second Woman at the Helm Mystery, is dedicated to hundreds of boater friends who explored the seas with my husband and me. Steve and I co-captained two boats starting in 1980, even if we had never owned nor operated large vessels before that year. Our first purchase, Ro-ven, a 34 foot Tollycraft sedan with twin gas engines, took us around Lake Washington, Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, and in British Columbia’s Gulf Islands and Desolation Sound. More