Mandrake Root

This is the story of two journeys. The first is the cruise of the sailing yacht Cybele. The second is the journey into a woman's past. After ten years of marriage, Roger and Emily Stratton decide on a second honeymoon. He is a writer and has bought a tiny sailing yacht for a Caribbean cruise. A few days out of port they are anchored off an uninhabited island when the scheme begins to rumble around in Roger's mind: Perhaps, even after ten years of marriage, there is a way, some way, to make his a