Carrie Talick

As a middle aged woman, she witnessed her successful husband sleeping with another woman. They both are sailors and Nancy decided she had enough of his philandering ways and was able to buy a sailboat. She has the help of her two best friends and her granddaughter to help sail the boat. Nancy was determined to beat Stan at his own game, sailing. Did she succeed? Great story about family and friendship.

A sweet, redemptive, girl power book of a group of well-to-do women of a certain age.

Nancy finds her husband in a very compromising position with another woman on their boat. Her group of best friends rally around her and hatch a plan - to get back at her husband and to thrust Nancy in to independence. They buy a boat and under Nancy's tutelage, learn how to sail it. Ultimately entering in to a race as the only all-women team, now known affectionately as The Mermaids.