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Loner James Malloy is a ferry captainor used to be, until he was unceremoniously fired and replaced by a girl named Courtney Farris. Now, instead of piloting Brenton Islands daily lifeline to the glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days beached, bitter, and bored. When he discovers a private golf course staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such improvements. But despite Brentons nickname as Cooperation Island, hes used to working solo. To keep rocky bluffs, historic trees, and ocean shoreline open to all, hell have to learn to cooperate with other islandersincluding Captain Courtney, who might just morph from irritant to irresistible once James learns a secret thats been kept from him for years. This salt-sprayed fourth novel by 2004 Olympic Sailor Carol Newman Cronin celebrates wilderness and water, open space and open-mindedness, and the redemptive power of neighborly cooperation.