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Being a tugboater is sometimes a dangerous job. Like...... Going out to buy pizza for the crew? That's not one of them, or is it? When Captain Ashley Walters and her husband, Adam, leave their tugboat in Indiana Harbor to pick up some Chicago-style pizzas for the crew, they never once thought it would become a life-defining event. But they will soon learn that sex traffickers lurk on corners where you least expect them, and being kidnapped by them can happen to "normal" Americans engaged in everyday, mundane tasks, in places considered safe and unsuspecting of trouble. This book is a gripping tale of what happens in the underworld of sex and human trafficking and brings light to its ills in our society. At the very least, it will show that being kidnapped by sex-traffickers is not just sme Third World or big city ghetto problem. The characters are endearing and you will wonder how they can continually deal with the trauma that they see the victims endure and that they experience themselves. Be prepared to cry with them!

Ship and tugboat operations are some of the most dangerous professions. Most days, there is potential danger lurking nearby, and the lives of the men and women working under these potentially dangerous conditions, must not only cooperate, but they must also watch out for each other, and care for their fellow workers. Knowing the family members of the people whose lives may depend on your actions, creates a special bond. The crews and their wives, their children, and their significant others become one large family, and racial and romantic relationships are accepted at face value. Discrimination is not only unacceptable, but it also is not safe, and those who do not take that responsibility seriously, are not part of the family. The Tugboater Family will impress you, and make you wish the rest of the world could be as responsible and caring as these people show us we can be.

Curt Steiner has served twelve years as a Boatswain’s Mate in the Coast Guard, but it is time to move on. He is still deciding on the where and how to move on when he runs into his high school sweetheart, Lois, at a party during a visit home to Michigan. What Curt does not know is that Lois still holds a torch for him, and their meeting at the party is not by chance. When Curt meets Lois’s son, Steve, he is even more convinced that it is time to become a family of three. In doing so, Curt and Lois will enter the tugboating life, with its long days and nights, and even longer stretches of absences. It is the kind of life that will knock most any young couple off their feet. It stands to be seen if Curt and Lois will become acasualty of the tug boating life or whether they can weather the storms together.