Ocean of the Dead: A Novel in Three Parts

Reed is a lonely college dropout with plenty of money and nothing left to keep him connected to the life he's been failing at for years. Tom is an American expatriate desperate to outrun his tormented past and a haunting secret he left behind in Europe.

A chance meeting on a seedy wharf in Madagascar brings these two young men together on an unexpected journey that will take them through several exotic lands and into the darkest realm of all -- the unknowable terrain of another person's heart and mind.

Beneath a sweltering sun, on the sandy beaches that line the OCEAN OF THE DEAD, secrets are about to be revealed, and a past long buried is about to rise once more to claim its final victim.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M.J. Morrissette has traveled extensively, in countries ranging from Thailand to Australia to Russia, and in each of the 50 United States. After winning first place in [ital] Literal Latte's [stop ital] Travel Fiction contest with the short story "Island," and after inspiring trips to Madagascar and the Greek islands of Crete and Santorini, the original story of "Island" grew into this novel.