Onset
Brett Howard had exceeded the American dream. He started with nothing and was fully retired by the age of thirty-seven. After such a blazing career where he battled his way to the highest levels of big business was it finally his time to unwind and relax, to travel the world and to sail off into the sunrise? Those thoughts never crossed his mind. Instead, he set out on the exact opposite course and shed the trappings of power including the racing yacht, the expensive Manhattan townhouse, and his diamond-studded girlfriend.
He returned to the very same inner-city streets from which he escaped as a young boy because he was determined to make a difference in the lives of those left behind. He was also certain that he wanted to face the new challenges with his childhood love Lailani. But could they overcome their forced twenty-year separation; or did their vastly different experiences while apart leave no common ground between them? Throughout it all a ruthless Wall Street banker and his progeny unknowingly disrupt Brett`s life but also lay the foundations for his voyage beyond borders.
Precious Things
Kyle and his friends approached Brooke’s ritzy girls’ camp in a rowboat well past midnight. The boys were from New York City’s roughest neighborhoods, but they were completely at home in this camp—they’d snuck in before, several times. Brooke and her girlfriends always welcomed them. As they trudged to her cabin, something was different this time—there were no signs of life.
They were Brett Howard’s boys, his campers, kids whose lives he was trying to transform with his tried-and-true formula—summer camp sessions at Sail Shape.
When the trespass was exposed, Howard had only two missions—find out the truth to keep his kids out of prison, and salvage Sail Shape’s reputation to prevent a nation-wide shutdown.
Getting at the truth required money and allies. The fallout from the trespass had dried up the money and Howard’s driven personality had alienated most friends and family.
In the end he counts on an estranged son in London and an adopted daughter in New York to solve the mystery surrounding the campers who have refused to cooperate—a mystery that reaches all the way to west Africa.
