From her office window on St. Columba, Gemma March gazes out at the mysterious pleasure island just beyond the reef. Owned by country music legend Cowboi Rivers, the exclusive retreat lures the world’s wealthy and powerful with promises of secrecy and illicit pleasures. Meanwhile, the locals keep their distance, wary of the wild parties and whispered rumors of drugs and girls.
Desperate to escape her dead-end job, Gemma seizes a risky opportunity to captain the sailing vessel Mariposa for Cowboi’s shadowy empire. However, when a cocaine pickup in the Dominican Republic spirals into a deadly double-cross, Gemma and her crew enlist the aid of some unlikely allies, including voodoo witches, the ghost of a hard-drinking mariner, and a rhumba-loving boat boy. With her enemies closing in, Gemma flees to Cuba, then Miami, facing impossible choices and a storm on the horizon.
Day Drinkers is a tantalizing medley of Saint X and Bad Monkey, seasoned with The Rum Diary and Don’t Stop the Carnival. Drawing from her ten years as a liveaboard sailor and Caribbean travel writer, Kitty Turner, an American Absurdism revivalist, delivers a gripping tale of identity and redemption through her unique talent for rollicking storytelling and deep philosophical inquiry.