Last Exit in New Jersey (38 page)

Photograph by Felicia Grundler

C. E. Grundler is a native Jersey girl who has been sailing the region’s waters single-handedly since she was a child. Needless to say, she knows her way around a boat, having done everything from restoration and repairs to managing a boatyard and working in commercial marine transportation. Her “how to” articles have appeared in several boating magazines. When she’s not writing, she spends her time messing around aboard
Annabel Lee
, her thirty-two-foot Cheoy Lee trawler. She lives in northeast New Jersey with her husband, three dogs, and an assortment of cats.
Last Exit in New Jersey
is her first novel.