Shy takes the summer job to make some money. A few months on an extravagance luxury cruise liner – how bad can it be? Bikinis, free of charge food, maybe a good female or two . there’s generally going to be a clean crop of people, after all. He’ll rake in the guidelines and be able to help his mother with the bills. But then an earthquake more substantial than any ever recorded strikes California, and Shy’s life is changed permanently. The earthquake is the beginning. Twenty-four hours and a catastrophic chain of events later, Shy is dropped at sea, fighting to survive – and trapped with her. She’s blond and she’s rich, rather than in her lifestyle would she possess dreamed she’d be adrift in the Pacific Sea, surrounded by death and completely dependent on a man like Timid. And Shy hasn’t even confronted the worst yet.