Cross Current

Seychelle is proud to follow in her father's footsteps and work the
waters on a tugboat. She remembers Florida before it fractured between
rich and poor, white and black, Cuban and Haitian. For Seychelle, life
is all about making a living, making love, and keeping her eye on the
beauty that still remains in an ever-changing community. Then her life
takes a turn when her tug intercepts with a swamped fishing boat in the
Gulf Stream. Inside the boat are a murdered woman and a little girl in a
white dress.
When Seychelle returns to shore with a traumatized Haitian girl named
Solange in her cabin, she is faced with the border patrol, the police,
and an unraveling love affair. Determined to protect Solange, and
somehow keep her from being sent back to Haiti, Seychelle becomes
obsessed with the forces that nearly killed the girl -- and left her
speechless with terror. All Seychelle knows for sure is that Solange's
father was an American . . . and that somehow she slipped through a
murderer's hands.
Exploring the hidden world of Florida's Haitian community, Seychelle
realizes that Solange is still in great danger -- and that one killer
has claimed dozens of lives. With a murderer stalking the child,
Seychelle is racing to unravel dangerous truths. But to get the answers
she needs, she must return to where it all started: in the waters of the
Gulf Stream, where people died for a hope and prayer -- and a man with
a machete did the work of the devil himself.