Sea and river crossings may bring together or tear apart people and the chapters of their lives. Here are stories of those passing purposefully over the water and those being swept by tides. Whether moving on, heading back, or just adrift, ferries feature large. From around Oban, the ferry hub of Scotland's isle-tangled west coast, ten authors offer stories on this common theme. Here are people lost and people found. Birth and death. Tales of whales, the bleat of sheep and the tang of the salt air. Not all are Scottish ferries. Not all may be real ferries. But each journey is a crossing in which something is discovered or something is changed. Welcome aboard. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the RNLI