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The Willow Chronicle is a series within which there is an epic, three-volume, coming of age story. This section of the Chronicle begins in Whirlwinds, Waves, and Willow and concludes with Found and Lost in Paradise . The middle volume of this trilogy is At Sea, which finds two young American women in 1956 who have begun a great adventure, an escape from the puritanical world of small town America to the freeing world of French Polynesia aboard a stolen, 60-foot yawl. In At Sea and later in Found and Lost in Paradise, Willow "Billie" Benton and Brittany "Bambi" Macey endure tumultuous months that erase whatever remains of adolescent innocence. Under the mentorship of Oliana Teriierooiterai, the last and prominent Marquesan Chieftess on Hiva Oa, Billie and Bambi learn to cope with a world where the only restraints to satisfying their appetites are consent and imagination. The inclusion of significant does of greed and betrayal, a touch of cannibalism, and a beautiful and faithful mahu -- a third gender person named Mahana who becomes a friend and lover to them both -- creates a story set in a world that is far different from the America that Billie and Bambi have left behind. But there remains a greater world to which they must return, a world where conflicts are resolved by fate, courage, perseverance, and a strategic return.