Veritas

Veritas

Author: MJ Duncan Listening Length: 9h 33m
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Working as a chef aboard a private yacht might not seem like a vacation for most people, but to Lauren Murphy, a highly-regarded sous chef at a top New York restaurant, the opportunity to spend seventeen days in the Virgin Islands, sailing from one tropical location to the next, while having complete freedom to create ...

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SANDY SPIT WAS a small island that sat just off the northern coast of Jost Van Dyke, with a wide sandy beach around its perimeter and lush tropical foliage filling its middle.

It was a quintessential Caribbean islet—the kind of island pirates in the movies were stranded on after a mutiny, with nothing but a bottle of rum and a flintlock pistol loaded with a single shot to put the poor bastard out of his misery once the alcohol had run out and reality set in—and because of that, it was a popular stopping point for many charters operating in the islands.

The sound of music playing greeted Grey when she returned to the Veritas from ferrying the Muellers over to the spit, and she smiled as she tied the dinghy’s bow line off to a cleat beside the starboard dive platform.

It had been a while since she had last heard Inside Out, but she had no problem picking up the chorus as she skipped up the stairs to the back deck.