My Life with 3 Women Author:Alan Richards A True Story--Four strangers, 3 women and 1 man, running from their pasts meet on an island in the South Pacific. Alan owns the sailboat. His dream cruise is on the rocks and he's thinking of calling it quits. Carole has a secret, and was abandoned by her lover and stranded in the South Pacific when he found out. Susan is a sweet young Southe... more »rn girl who will go anywhere, except home to daddy. Sigrid is a blonde "trophy wife" who has travelled half-way around the world from Germany to get away from her husband, but it's still not far enough. They meet for the first time in Tonga aboard the author's sailboat for a 3-day cruise to Fiji. During the 3 days they survive a storm and find themselves becoming the best of friends. They decide to stay together and end up living together for a year on the small sailboat. After a few weeks in a tropical paradise, the three women decide to share Alan and work out the details. Alan finds himself "on call" to these three intelligent and beautiful women. They also share their troubled pasts and discover what each was running away from. They help each other overcome the crushing burdens of their pasts. They survive a deadly hurricane at sea and a vicious attack by modern-day pirates in the South China Sea.« less