Cruise Ship Diaries is a story of life-changing decisions and second chances. When Margaret Maghpye, single and living in New York, is fired from her job, she exhausts her savings on a Mexican cruise, hoping it will lift her spirits. Having spent her young adult life making all the wrong choices, at first blush this seems to be just another one. As she struggles to survive shipboard intrigue as well as entrapment in Acapulco, there is a bright spot when she befriends a fellow passenger, Michael Sanders-a mysterious recluse with plenty of reasons to keep to himself-and for whom this is by no means a pleasure trip. But, having felt the sting of heartbreak time and time again, Maggie is not about to embark on another relationship. Awash in self-doubt, but does she have the courage it takes to love again?