The Secret of Escape focuses on a beautiful young woman, who sets sail with a friend on his thirty-eight foot sailboat, Escape. One thousand miles offshore from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in route to French Polynesia, the Captian falls overboard during a storm, leaving Emerald alone. The harrowing three month journey aboard Escape is so vivid, the reader is drawn in emotionally as if he is living Emerald's frightening experiences and is praying for his own survival. The journey includes several obsticles, such as; dealing with French officials accusing her of murder, gaining legal possesion of Escape, being robbed, and watcing her lover being attacked by a shark. Readers are rewarded with meeting friendly Polynesians and touring several unspoiled South Pacific paradises. Many of the experiences are taken from the Author's ten years of sailing in the South Pacific.