Alone

Orphaned on the Ocean

By: Richard Logan, Tere Dupperault Fassbender

Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin

A tanker steaming through the deep Northwest Providence Channel of the Bahamas comes across a shocking sight: a lone dinghy carrying Captain Julian Harvey and the body of a young girl. They are all that remain of the ketch Bluebelle, a handsome 60-foot sailing yacht chartered by the Duperrault family of Green Bay, Wisconsin. But their happy family vacation went terribly wrong when, according to Harvey, a violent and unexpected squall smashed the giant main mast, killed Harvey's wife and the others, and sank the boat. Harvey found the child floating dead and, as far as he knows, he is the only survivor. Or is he?

Four days later, just as Captain Harvey is testifying at a Coast Guard hearing about the tragic accident, amazing news of another survivor arrives. Eleven-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault has been found barely alive on a flimsy cork-and-canvas float with no food or water. Harvey takes the news calmly, finishes his testimony, and leaves...to commit bloody suicide.

This is the chillingly detailed inside story of what really happened during that trip and the decades-long courage of the sole survivor of a murderous crime.

©2010 Richard Logan and Tere Duperrault Fassbender (P)2010 Tantor

Critic reviews

"A genuinely harrowing, wrenching and deeply memorable account of survival against all odds." (Ron Franscell, best-selling author of The Darkest Night)

Slow

Not much meat, slow start. Some good research done on a couple chapters; felt like they were stuck in there to buoy the otherwise short newspaper clipping.

Tere is my hero.

♡
I felt every emotion she didn't have the opportunity to feel. I hope only for her happiness.

The unwavering love God has for this little girl lost at sea💕

Nothing, it was greatly written and told by a very brave little girl! It’s a must read for anyone.

Wonderfully written and narrated. Thank you

This book about Mrs. Fassbender is a fascinating story of a young survivor In many aspects of life and she is alive to tell the story. As she mentioned. In this story she could have been strung out on drugs or other thing trying to found happiness but she Maintains thru bad marriges and heartache, there was and is a purpose for het survival....I wish her all the blessings and peace she desires and needs I het life

Thank you for sharing your story!

I thought it was going to be more

What the little girl went through was truly tragic. I was looking for a little more depth into the story. However this story is very heavy on the pre story and the aftermath.