Silver Lady: Travels Along the River Road

Captain Cassie and her five passengers set off on a houseboat river trip. Not exactly a luxury vacation as society in 2033 is unraveling at an alarming rate. The nation is nearing collapse and the states are no longer united. It’s Cassie’s responsibility to safely deliver Silver Lady to its owner, over two-thousand miles away.

The further the houseboat travels downriver, the stranger life becomes.

It isn’t long before they wind up in uncharted waters—on river branches that don’t show up on navigation maps. The towns they dock at for supplies are sometimes friendly, sometimes not. Among the stranger places is The Land of Nod—and in particular, the town of Nod; as well as The Island of Lost Children, and Owl Town. The bizarre becomes the new normal for the crew, and is—at times—preferential to the unknown reality on terra not-so-firma where paintings are disappearing from canvases, as written words are from books. Similarly, people too, have become to vanish.

Delays—from storms to getting lost—seem to prevent Silver Lady from getting to her destination.

When one of the characters goes missing after a storm, fingers are pointed at fellow passengers. Was foul play involved? Will the mysteries of the many disappearances be solved? Will Silver Lady ever reach ‘her’ home?