This compelling and compassionate mystery takes place in the quirky and intoxicating island town of Key West Florida where 21-year-old Jillian Dougherty, a newly graduated Boston nursing school student away from home for the first time, finds herself completely absorbed into the homeless population. Meet the island inhabitants who live under the bridges, behind the hedges, and on the edge of sanity in this tourist island mecca. Follow Jillian as she is swept away on the home-built sailboat 'Canadian Soul' to the Caribbean Island of St. John. Lost Souls of Paradise is a book for beachcomers. Those of us who glue our eyes to the sand with the highest expectation, in search of that hidden treasure that lies waiting to be discovered just beyond our next step. A shell, a shark's tooth, a pattern in the sand worth storing in memory, or a gold doubloon stolen by a pirate and lost to the sea; it really doesn't matter how big or small, how obscure or insignificant, it is the lost time, as we indulge in our search, that causes us to value the experience. May you find yourself enjoyably lost for a little while, as you walk the beach with Ian, searching for the Lost Souls of Paradise. Approximately 330 pages